Trashed: Our Ocean By: Meaghan Todd December 10th 2010 CGW-4U1-02 Mr. Kyriacou Have you ever been to the beach? I have and swimming in the ocean is one of my favourite things to do when I go on vacation! You wouldn’t want someone to come into your house and throw their cigarette butts or their plastic drink container on your kitchen floor when they’re done would you? I know I wouldn’t. Littering in the ocean does not magically get rid of your garbage; the marine wildlife
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is a problem in our world today. This problem is called ocean acidification. Ocean acidification is a process caused by increasing man made carbon dioxide emissions. This process is making the oceans more acidic. Ocean acidification could affect humans.With such decline of fish and shellfish stocks due to ocean acidification will impact an big role in the human source of protein. millions of people could be affected. Ocean acidification affects crabs snails and sea urchins. These
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Ocean Waves A wave is a periodic disturbance in space and time‚ possibly transferring energy to or through a space-time region. Have you ever ridden a wave in the ocean? Ocean waves travel on the surface of the water. You can see them and you can feel them. As you swim through the water‚ you can even make your own waves. The winds cause waves on the surface of the ocean (and on lakes). The wind transfers some of its energy to the water‚ through friction between the air molecules and the water molecules
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influence ocean currents. There are many factors that influence ocean currents‚ four of the factors would be planet rotation‚ wind‚ density of water‚ and gravitation. Planet rotation causes the currents to move clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counter clockwise in the southern hemisphere. Wind blows on the surface of the ocean therefore pushing the water in the direction of the wind. Different densities in the water can cause currents to form and move. Gravitation pulls the water “downhill
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examines the effects that humans have been inducing on the ocean and how the pollution produced is affecting the form of life present there. There is plenty of evidence that the oceans have deteriorated at the hands of humans‚ but recent investigations show that deterioration‚ especially at the sea coasts‚ has increased significantly in the last years due to increased industrial discharge. Common synthetic pollutants that reach the ocean include pesticides‚ herbicides‚ chemical fertilizers‚ detergents
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Imagine being a little kid‚ playing in the ocean. All the waves are crashing and you are jumping over them. Suddenly‚ you see a large amount of trash‚ beer bottles‚ plastic containers‚ and strings that hold all of it together. You remove the trash from the ocean and put it into a trashcan. By this small task‚ you have supported the sustainability of the ocean. “Sustainability is ensuring that critical social‚ economic‚ and ecological processes are maintained in a way so that both the short and long-term
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BHM 324: Human Resource Management Challenges and Changes Joshua Stallard May 26‚ 2013 Module 1 Case Assignment Human resource management is significant because it kind of acts as a synergistic entity. All the parts need to be able to work together and communicate to result in a smooth product. Organizational restructuring has impacted staffing in healthcare organizations because it predominately ends up with cutting jobs. The workload becomes so
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WATER OUR LIFELINE Water is a transparent fluid which forms the world’s streams‚ lakes‚ oceans and rain‚ and is the major constituent of the fluids of living things. As a chemical compound‚ a water molecule contains one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms that are connected by covalent bonds. Water covers 71% of the Earth’s surface.[1] It is vital for all known forms of life. On Earth‚ 96.5% of the planet’s water is found in seas and oceans‚ 1.7% in groundwater‚ 1.7% in glaciers and the ice caps of Antarctica
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Ocean Turns Into Plastic Island? Could Happen Have you ever wondered what happens to that plastic bottle or plastic bag that you throw away? What if I told you that the bag and the bottle are slowly killing off marine life and slowly turning our oceans into dumps? This is the case and the problem is only growing and everybody is responsible for it and everybody needs to pitch in and clean up this mess. We all use plastic because it’s convenient for us‚ but in the end it ends up killing the marine
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------------------------------------------------- Food web From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia A freshwater aquatic and terrestrial food web. A food web (or food cycle) depicts feeding connections (what eats what) in an ecological communityand hence is also referred to as a consumer-resource system. Ecologists can broadly lump all life forms into one of two categories called trophic levels: 1) the autotrophs‚ and 2) the heterotrophs. To maintaintheir bodies‚ grow‚ develop‚ and to reproduce
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