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Ocean Pelagic

Ocean Pelagic. Andy William Mark BIO 101 May 11,2010. Ocean Pelagic, What is it?. The Ocean Pelagic biome is composed of mainly of everything, but the floor itself, of the ocean sometimes referred to as the open ocean zone .

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Ocean Pelagic

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  1. Ocean Pelagic Andy William Mark BIO 101 May 11,2010

  2. Ocean Pelagic, What is it? • The Ocean Pelagic biome is composed of mainly of everything, but the floor itself, of the ocean sometimes referred to as the open ocean zone. • The Ocean Pelagic area, includes those waters further from the land, basically the open ocean. It’s kind of hard to describe the temperature, because there are many kinds of currents that are mixing warm and cold currents. The flowers in the Pelagic Area include surface seaweed.

  3. Primary Consumers • Primary Consumers are the first to eat the primary producers. • Primary consumers here in the Pelagic area are: Crustaceans, Larvae, Chordates. • Crustaceans are arthropods, which means that they are invertebrate animals that have an exoskeleton. • Larvae is like the early form of an animal before if performs metamorphosis. • Chordates include sea squirts, lancelets.

  4. Primary Producers • Primary Producers that live in the ocean pelagic zone are Diatoms and Dinoflagellates • Diatoms are the go to food resource for marine and freshwater microorganisms and animal larva. • Most of the Dinoflagellates are plankton • In freshwater and marine ecosystems; it is estimated that 20% to 25% of all organic carbon fixation on the planet is carried out by diatoms (Waggoner, Diatoms). • Carbon Fixation is transformation of carbon dioxide and water into sugars, using light energy (Waggoner, Diatoms).

  5. Food Web

  6. Human Impact of/on Ocean Pelagic (Trash and Oil Spill) • The way that this massive junk island was created is from all of the trash that we carelessly deposit into the ocean (Mone, Trash); it is mainly composed of plastics, because plastics are one of the hardest things to actually get rid of. A biodegradable cardboard box is a lot easier to breakdown than a plastic 2 liter bottle. Cleaning it up would cost a lot of money. Also another recent event is the oil spill off of the gulf coast • This most recent oil spill has had a vast negative impact on the organisms of the ocean, as for the most of them are contaminated with oil, and the oil spill has had an adverse affect on humans because, some people make a living off of fishing, and oystering. Many of the fishermen in that area are laid off because of the condition of the ocean and the condition of the organisms.

  7. References • Mone, Gregory. "Giant Island of Trash." Popular Science Blog. Web. 10 May 2010. Photo taken by Gregory Mone <http://popsci.typepad.com /popsci/2007/10/giant-island-of.html>. • Goddard, Jacqui, and REX. Attempt to Contain BP Oil Leak Hit by Major Setback. 2010. Photograph. Gulf Coast of United States. Attempt to Contain BP Oil Leak Hit by Major Setback. Telegraph CO UK, 08 May 2010. Web. 10 May 2010. <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/7697613/Attempt-to-contain-BP-oil-leak-hit-by-major-setback.html>.

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