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    glitter or glow nor have a rhythmic pulse of a swim like the Moon jelly. The Moon Jelly has a body like it’s name‚ is a main dish on many predators menu’s and has a Broadcast spawning type of fertilization. As the Moon Jelly population is rising and plankton decreasing will the balance of the ocean be thrown into chaos? Or will humans finally get some sense knocked into us and be able to fix

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    in kicking around the plankton on the surface‚ giving it more time to reproduce. The more plankton that are produced‚ the more animal plankton in the sea. This also increases the feeding of larger animals such as whales and allows for more fish and krill in the ocean. Plant plankton also absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide is one of the major contributors to an increase of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere. However‚ when there are too much plankton‚ the amount of carbon

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    food chain‚ the energy flow goes upwards and forms an energy pyramid. The energy flow in the oceans starts from the bottom which consists of plankton and other tiny organisms. Plankton are the main food source of many sea creatures‚ which are the main food source of many sea creatures and are the beginning of the ocean food flow. Forage fishes eat plankton and are eaten by predators. Whales are at the top of the food chain and have no natural predators. Human whaling has dramatically reduced the

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    juveniles to survive to the adult stage. Not all adults feed at a high trophic level. Whale sharks (50 ft) are the largest fish and feed on plankton and small fish‚ while Great White sharks (20 ft) are the largest carnivorous fish and feed on sea lions‚ seals and large fish. Blue whales (100 ft) are the largest whale and feed primarily on plankton and krill‚ while the Sperm whale (45 ft) is the largest carnivorous whale feeding on fish and very large squid. (a) How does the location of each

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    life‚ usually hates SpongeBob‚ and is pretty much angry most of the time. 3. Greed-Mr. Krabs Obviously Mr. Krabs is greedy and desires money. How could Greed not be Krabs? He actually sang about the power of greed in "Selling Out". 4. Envy-Plankton Plankton is envious of Mr. Krabs because The Krusty Krab is a success while The Chum Bucket is a failure. His envy drives him to try to steal the Krabby Patty secret formula. 5. Glutony-Gary I actually think this one is pretty funny. Did you ever notice

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    does not directly affect them. However‚ O3 depletion results in increased Ultra Violet radiation reaching earth‚ which will reduce the longevity of plastics and paint. Plankton Productivity: I could not find anything about plankton productivity. If I were to guess though‚ I would think that if the ocean levels rise‚ the plankton productivity would

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    Whale sharks are active feeders‚ targeting  plankton and fish .A whale shark is estimated to eat 21kg (46p) of plankton a day.The whale shark swims forward constantly with its mouth open and pushes water and food into its mouth.All  whale sharks cannot eat or swallow human beings because of its esophagus cannot swallow big size objects

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    The most essential resource for human life has now become one of the most dangerous things to consume. Bottled water is plaguing our environment and big corporations are making a huge profit from this necessity. The film Tapped delves into the ways that these big corporations are making big money off of bottled water‚ and what it is doing to our health and our environment. These companies are taking water from lakes without paying for it and they are creating drought. Then they are bottling up this

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    The Evolution of Whales “Their tongues alone can weigh as much as an elephant and their hearts as much as a car.” The animal called whales what are the largest‚ intelligent and aquatic mammals. However‚ whales were not the aquatic animals at the beginning. After thousands of years of evolution‚ since changes in the terrestrial environment and the demand for food‚ the whales become appearance like a graceful arc from the four limbs. We have to imagine that what happened in the past thousand years

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    source: 10 liters per minute Sampling time: 28 minutes Colony Counts: PDA 10-1: TNTC‚ 210 PCA 10-1: 320‚ 230 10-2: 42‚ 90 10-3: 4‚ 12 10-2: 20‚ 10 10-3: 0‚ 0 10-4: 0‚ 1 10-4: 0‚ 1 3. The plankton counts below were obtained after collecting sea water sample 20 times using a plankton net (net mouth diameter: 20 cm‚ net length: 30 cm‚ arm length of sampler: 45 cm) via vertical towing and transferring the concentrated sample of 110 ml to 5% borax-buffered formalin at 1:9 ratio (water

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