Thursday, January 29, 2015

Energy Flow

The bigger the animal the more it eats. Such as a Great White they eat fish, seals, and other sea animals. Smaller animals eat other small animals such as plankton, krill, shrimp, copopods.
The primary producers are things such as plants ans small organisms. The top carnivores are animals such as sharks,dolphins and whales that eat the smaller organisms such as jellyfish, smaller fish and clams ect.




Wednesday, January 21, 2015

How do the fundamentals of physical oceanography and meteorology make earth habitable ?

  The fundamentals of physical and meteorology oceanography make earth habitable because.

the climate and winds affect the tides and currents causing waves. The ocean holds most of the earths

heat and food sources. When the ocean reflects the extra heat, the heat goes into the atmosphere

creating rain to fall. The ocean also helps keep the earth at a constant temperature that keeps us from

 burning up or freezing to death.




When you are out in the ocean have you ever noticed how windy it is and how if you keep going

further out into the ocean you will notice the waves as they grow and become stronger. These winds

are created because of the wide open space of the ocean. There is nothing blocking the wind from

being slowed down. The winds help to keep the ocean moving from place to place throughout the

ocean. Winds get stronger as they cross through open space. The Arctic for example is extremely

windy because of all the open space across the ice. Other examples of high winds are open fields,

huge open areas and the ocean itself.


The winds go from high to low and low to high. The winds circle around on the outside of the earth.

The ocean adsorbs the suns rays and as the water heats so does the air. The heat circles around as heat

 releases throughout the air creating the warm air. The air tarps heat above the clouds, the clouds hold

moisture and when it rains that warm air comes down in rain form. The clouds are like heat trappers

that allow heat into the earth.

The oceans tides, currents and waves create are created by the movement of the moon everyday

 creating tides within the ocean. The tides differ in some parts of the world there will be some oceans

 that have two tides a day and others that will only have one at night or in the morning. The moon

changes the tides. As the moon comes out in the tide comes in and as the moon disappears the tide

goes out creating the tide change. Tsunamis within the ocean are created when the earth moves, also

 known as an earthquake cracks the crust of the ocean bottom moving the plates. The pressure that the

 quake causes upward pressure that pushes the water creating waves. The waves then grow as the

wind catches up to the waves and they push towards land. The currents also have an affect on the

 ocean.


The currents all move in different directions. The warm and cold waters collide at some points its

 called at gyre and its when the cold and warm air mix together creating a circular motion in the

ocean.

 The earth is habitable because. The ocean prevents world temperatures from getting to hot or too

 cold.  Without the ocean we would most likely be dead. Because the earth would burn up, the heat of

 the sun would make the earth to hot and the earth would disappear slowly. The ocean creates life for

the humans it does so much for us we should do the same and keep the ocean clean and well because

 if the ocean is affected so is earth itself affecting our air and our habitat.