OCS 1005 : OCS 1005 Test 1
15 Mar 2019
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Hurricanes- affect all areas not just where it hits: temperature- affects crops like sugar cane, which is the biggest crop in la. How do you affect the ocean: we have over fished before countries that have small land areas without room for farming (like. Geological: study the ocean formation, sediments, fossil records, coastlines. Physical: waves, tides, currents, climate, *** changing current changes climate. Biological: salinity, nutrients, coastal systems, marine resources, plankton, algae, fish, marine mammals, communities. Marine science: physical environment and processes, ocean atmosphere interactions wind, energy, earth, ocean land interactions, chemistry of water- density, organisms- microbes to whales, human activity- environment and how we effect it. ***water in what we call the ocean covers approximately 70% of earth*** Temperature, oxygen level, and pressure make it hard to explore the ocean. Oceans: southern or antarctic, pacific (largest, atlantic. Important graph page 4: not a lot of places to get water that we can drink.
