Oceans

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0: Ocean Conveyor belt

This is part of the Ocean Conveyor belt, a huge amount of currents that flow due to wind, salinity, and heat.

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1: Ocean Conveyor Belt

This is part of the Ocean Conveyor belt, a huge amount of currents that flow due to wind, salinity, and heat.

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2: Equator

This is the equator. To quote Wikipedia,

"An equator is the intersection of a sphere's surface with the plane perpendicular to the sphere's axis of rotation and containing the sphere's center of mass.

The Equator refers to the Earth's equator and is an imaginary line on the Earth's surface equidistant from the North Pole and South Pole, dividing the Earth into the Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere. Other planets and spherical astronomical bodies have equators similarly defined."

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3: Line 4

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4: FairPrice Halts Shark Fin Sales!

A major retailer called FairPrice has halted its sales of shark fin, thanks to the combined efforts of people and some boycotting. Sharks are critically endangered, and people realized that, so they began to boycott FairPrice's shark fin soup. This would mean a blow to the retailer since FairPrice is highly profitable.

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5: Arctic ice melting!

Thanks to global warming, the Arctic's snowy summers may soon become slushie summers. The melting could eradicate a key link in the Arctic ocean: plankton! Plankton live on the underside of this ice, so if the ice is gone, the first part of the food chain and the rest of the chain is gone forever.

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6: Antarctic Ice Melting!

Like the north pole, the south pole's pole's ice is melting too! Penguins are being forced to migrate to places like Africa.

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7: The Gulf current

This is the Gulf of Mexico, the start of the Gulf current, also a location in the "great conveyor belt", an underwater current. Water goes out of the Gulf, up to western Europe, where the water cools and sinks. It travels through the Southern Hemisphere to the west of Asia.

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8: Argentina

Penguins are being forced to migrate here since Antarctic ice is melting (see the pin in Antarctica)

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9: Great Barrier Reef

This is a hotbed of ocean life, being filled with coral and animals. It actually is being destroyed.

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10: Great Garbage Patch

This is a huge garbage patch. Trash from North America and Asia flow in a gyre (part of the ocean currents) and create this island-like trash patch.

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11: Great Garbage Patch

It turns out the Great Garbage Patch is a lot bigger than I thought! It it growing bigger constantly, and it cannot biodegrade.

To see a video describing what happens to a plastic bag, click here.

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12: Ocean Conveyor Belt

The ocean Conveyor Belt is a current that ferries water all over the world. First, water comes here from the Gulf Stream, then it cools and sinks. There is a line below showing where the Conveyor belt goes. It takes thousands of years for water to circulate through this current. To see a Wikipedia page about t

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13: Layers of the Ocean

There are five main layers of the ocean, the epipelagic (sunlight), mesopelagic (twilight), bathypelagic (midnight) abyssopelagic (abyss), and hadalpelagic (trenches).

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23: Trawl Nets

The trawl net, a destructive fishing net that scrapes the ocean floor clean of everything, was invented and popularized in Britain.

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24: Greenland

Greenland's ice is really melting. If it all melts, the sea level will rise 20 feet, making coastlines underwater and killing thousands of people!

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25: Salinity

Salinity is the amount of original salt in the ocean.

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26: Cod Overfishing

in 1994 cod fishing was banned in the Grand Banks and in 15 years it has still not repopulated.

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27: Oil Spill Magnet

The Gulf Of Mexico is a magnet to disaster because people are careless when doing things there for example, for the most recent oil spill in the Gulf Of Mexico had all their safeguards broken or miscalculated.

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28: The Great Barrier Reef

The Great Barrier Reef is a home to many fish and some of these fish are exclusive to the reef itself so we need to stop destroying it because along with it will go many species of fish!

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29: Milford Sound

Milford Sound is a Strict Marine Protected area.

In 2004, a diesel oil spill was discovered here. The 13,000 liters of oil closed the Sound for 2 days and mass cleanup activities followed. Officials judged it as an act of ecoterrorism (which is terrorism against the environment).

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30: Greenland

Greenland has as much ice as Antarctica. If either melts, the earth's oceans will rise over 20 feet, putting much of the world underwater. And Greenland is already melting! where there once was ice, there is now a river, plowing through the ice and melting it.

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31: WWF

World Wildlife Fund is a organization which protects wild life

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32: WWF

World Wildlife Fund is an organization for the protection of animals. It has websites for a variety of countries, including Singapore, Mexico, and the UK. This is the office for the USA.