Mangroves

There are three different types of mangroves, Red Mangrove, Black Mangrove, and White Mangrove.
The red mangrove grows the deepest in water and has warts over there branches.The black mangrove is just like its name it as a very dark blackish bark that grow with low tide. And the white mangrove grow in sandy soils and have paler leaves.

Ocean Garbage Patch

The Ocean Garbage Patch is located in the North Pacific. It has been forming from the debris collected and gathered by the oceanic currents and collects all in this particular area. It mainly consists of plastic particles. It is figured that around 80% of the garbage comes from land and the other 20% is from ships. Either way it is a continuing problem that is growing. The wildlife that live in this area are suffering from eating the trash and ending up with these plastics in there stomach causing great damage. As man we can end this by not littering and doing our part to clean up litter that we do see in order to help prevent the Ocean Garbage Patch to continue to grow.

Reptile

King Cobra:

The scientific name for the King Cobra is Ohiophagus hannah. They live mainly in the rain forests of India, southern China and southeast Asia. They can eat mostly anything and even eat other snakes, they are not scared to attack and are extremely aggressive. They are able to spit there venom accurately up to half of there length and can inject a bite of venom that is powerful enough to kill an elephant.  I chose the king cobra as my reptile because i think they are a very beautiful creature and i think it is interesting that a snake can be so powerful against everything i comes into contact with.

Ocean Acidification

Pictures of the result of ocean acidification


Ocean acidification is the pollution from our cars and other fossil fuels burning that are admitting an enormous amount of CO2 into our air and polluting our oceans. With the enormous amounts of CO2 in the ocean animals that use the minerals in the water to make a protective shell are getting destroyed. And the animals that already have a protective shell are at harm because the acid is degrading there shells.If man continues to not pay attention to the danger we are causing this problem will continue to grow until its to late and all of our ocean is lifeless. Luckily this is preventable, we can begin to use resources such as the sun to generate our electricity and then use that electricity to charge our cars, that way we are able to use fewer fossil fuels which will pollute our air and cause ocean acidification.

Karenia Brevis causes algea bloom, called red tide. It can affect women by eating fish that had been affected by the algae by living in the water. It wall cause humans to have nausea, diarrhea and headaches. This can become a huge problem because it will affect the areas that fishermen can fish in which might decrease fish supply and raise prices on fish and hurt the fishermen's business.

plankton facts

This week i learned a lot about plankton that i would have never realized or learned before.

My favorite fact that i learned was that animals like jellyfish and other types of fish can actually begin there life as plankton and then grow into a full sized fish. Another one of my favorites and most surprising was that plankton provide 80% of our oxygen, before learning this i always thought it was from the trees but i was proven wrong. I also learned that plankton can not travel against currents and so they rely on that to get them where they float. There is also plant plankton which have to be near the surface so that they are able to photosynthesize. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuXMz3j9E8k

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuXMz3j9E8k

The Killer Whale which is also known scientifically by Orcinus Orca, Orca whale, or just the Orca and the one not heard often at all is the blackfish. They are found in all oceans and do not have a specific type of prey all of them are different. Some eat on fish and others eat marine mammals. With killer whale birthing can occur at any time of the year, but winter is usually the most popular. The females can reproduce up to age 40 and begin around age 15 where the men start reproducing around age 21 and do not reproduce as long because they have a shorter life span. With the killer whale i think it is amazing at how large the animal is, and also that is able to be trained and controlled by humans.There an endangered species so many organizations are trying to protect them and help them re populate. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWsN63PRCW8

the ending on the video is so cute, it really shows that the killer whale and all animals do have feelings:)