Article title: Life in the Oceans
Author: by James W. Nybakken and Steven K. Webster
Key Points:
- 71% of earth is covered in water.
- Richest realm of earth is mysterious to us.
- Ocean ecosystems have very large diversities
- Researchers have only discovered 10% of the ocean
- The ocean is very hard to research because of the traveling difficulties
- Only 16 phyla is found on land or in fresh water
- Only 250000 of ocean species have been identified
- Ocean water is 800x denser than air
- A few hundred meters down has no photosynthesis
- Phytoplankton vary by region
- Heavy water have a heavy rain of detritus
- Ocean does not have much plant life due to lack of critical nutrients
- Oxygen minimum zones are 500-1000 meters
- Diversity of species is high, density of them are low in the deep sea
- Deep sea creatures get food from marine snow
- aquatic trees soften waves and provide food and shelter for many organisms
- Marine ecosystems are left out of most marine conversations to save diversity
- People must learn to know that human actions can alter life in the sea to save the myriad creatures.
Summary
In the world, over 71% of the land is covered in water. In the vastness of the blue, only 10% has been reachable and discovered by the many researchers. The ocean has always been a mystery towards the human research. There are reasons why 10% is the limit so far. One could be that the ocean water is literally 800 times denser than the air. Go too deep and you can die just by getting "squished" by the ocean. Even our vehicles can't reach these depths. Either way, even the parts that we are able to reach, we can't possibly explore it all. Putting this aside, life can be pretty diverse in the ocean. Deep parts of the ocean are actually a lot more diverse. This means that they are a lot less in density. These deep sea organisms get food from what we call marine snow. This side of the ocean doesn't really have much plant life due to a lack of nutrients. In the top of the ocean, there are actually some trees. These trees help soften waves and are actually a food and shelter center for many fish.
My thoughts on this subject:
I believe we should respect the ocean as much as we respect the land. Just because we don't know about something, doesn't mean we have to go and disrupt it's flow of life. People need to know how human actions are able to alter life of the many diverse creatures of the sea. I think we don't really know much about the oceans due to thinking that it isn't that important. Through this article we are able to see how each part of the ocean is able to affect each other like on land. You could even say that they all have an important "job".
So what?The ocean may be diverse, but the numbers of each organism are very small. Disrupting and killing the organisms can put it closer to extinction
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Says who?Marine scientists, James W. Nybakken, and Steven K. Webster
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What if?What if we knew 100% of the ocean, what would it change in the minds of humans?
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This reminds me of...This reminds me of the life on land
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