finale essay

essential question: 
The oceans harbor a wide variety of living organisms, each exhibiting adaptations for survival in their particular marine niches.  First analyze the relationship between structure and function in the living organisms studied this semester.   Then compare and contrast representative members of the major marine animal phyla in terms of structure, adaptation, lifestyle, and evolutionary history. some organisms that we learned about this semester go from microscopic to the largest sea mammals known to man. 
a marine food web

• diatoms; They dominate the temperate and polar oceans. Typical size is about 30 micrometers. They contribute about 60 per cent of the primary productivity in the oceans. 
• The phytoplankton are eaten by the smallest floating animals, the zooplankton They range in size from single-celled organisms to larger multi-celled organisms. Small zooplankton are eaten by larger zooplankton. 

one mammal that i was very interested in would be whales, humpback and orca .i really enjoyed learning about these mammals. they really interested me because of the movie "Blackfish". after watching this movie i got a better under standing of how whales are living in the wild. 


niche 
Hutchinson's fundamental niche, defined by the physical and biological environments in which an organisms can thrive in the absence of inter-species interactions.

the phytoplankton and the plants plat a huge role in the marine food web. the plants underwater use photosynthesis and they make their own food. others are producers and other are consumers. 
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22832347

HOT TURTLES

climate change

 Earth's average temperature has risen by 1.4°F over the past century, and is projected to rise another 2 to 11.5°F over the next hundred years. Small changes in the average temperature of the planet can translate to large and potentially dangerous shifts in climate and weather. Oceans are warming and becoming more acidic, ice caps are melting, and sea levels are rising

amazon turtles & What Can We Do?

amazon turtles are being killed everyday, the climate change is messing with their natural habitats. there isn't much we can do to help them, except have people on the beaches who supervise the turtle nests, and help them to the water and hope they survive. this effects all turtles around the world and everyone needs to take precautions to the situation.

turtles dig nests in the sand, and they lay their eggs at specific times during the year and usually at night.The length of the incubation period of turtle eggs depends on the species, but it is usually several weeks.The number of eggs a turtle lays also depends on the species, but can be up to 200.Turtle eggs have many predators, including small mammals, lizards, birds and humans.