Ocean food web

Nearly 140 million people live along the Mediterranean Sea's 28,000 miles (45,000 km) of coastline. An equal number of tourists flood the area from May to October every year to enjoy the white sand beaches and warm waters. This crush of people has left little room for one of the area's oldest inhabitants, the Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus). Monk seals are pinnipeds, a term which means "fin foot" and is used to describe seals, sea lions, and walruses. Mediterranean Monk Seal an Endangered Species at Bagheera

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brparker - Animal Life(Fauna)

NOAA Teacher at Sea Blog NOAA Teacher at Sea Maureen Anderson Aboard NOAA Ship Oregon II ( NOAA Ship Tracker ) July 25 — August 9, 2011 Mission: Shark Longline Survey Geographical Area: Southern Atlantic/Gulf of Mexico Date: August 3, 2011 Weather Data from the Bridge Latitude: 32.50 N Longitude: -079.22 W Wind Speed: 17.75 kts Surface Water Temperature: 28.60 C Air Temperature: 29.90 C Relative Humidity: 71% Barometric Pressure: 1009.06 mb

Food Chain

Leopard Seal

Antarctic (Cold Desert) Food Chain

Ocean Currents

Whales are the largest animals ever to have lived, larger even than the largest dinosaurs. There are two reasons that they have managed to attain such enormous size - well over a hundred tonnes for the largest blue whales and nearing this amount for some other whale species. 1/ They live in the oceans and so the buoyancy of the water can support their great bulk without having to be supported and moved on land by legs and muscles. Like most other animals, the density of a whale is very close to that of water. The consequence of this is that the higher up a food chain you get, the lower the biomass of animals (that is number of animals multiplied by their weight). As whales tap the food chain low down - close to the producers, relatively little energy is lost and so more is available to the whales, so they are able to grow to enormous sizes. Whales and antarctica food webs and food chains

Classroom@Sea » Cruises » JR161 JR161 aboard the RRS James Clark Ross (JCR) is the first of a series of three cruises to the Scotia Sea to study food-wed dynamics in Antarctica The Challenge Ocean food webs modify the efficiency with which carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) is absorbed from the atmosphere into the sea, gobbled up by phytoplankton in the surface layers and then transported down into the depths of the ocean. This so-called "biological pump" absorbs about one-third of the CO 2 released from all human activities.

Scientists have recently discovered hydrothermal vent communities on the ocean floor. A diagram of a hydrothermal vent community is shown in the figure below. The organisms in this community live near heated vents. Inorganic compounds such as sulfides mix with extremely hot water when they are released from the vents. Public Release Item Scoring ~ CLG ~ School Improvement in Maryland

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