Food Web

     In class today we went over food chains and what eats what. Mrs Goodrich assigned us all a specific ocean organism like killer whale, penguin, Anchovy etc. I was assigned an Anchovy. An anchovy is one of the most eaten organism in the food web. We used a roll of yarn to make the web and I was holing a lot of strings because anchovy eaten by a lot of other sea animals. In terms of a tropic level, an anchovy is at the bottom of the triangle because anchovies are very small and just about anything could eat it.
 
An anchovy would be a primary consumer on the Trophic pyramid.

Oceanography Final essay

Nick Jorge

Oceanography

Final Essay

            How do the fundamentals of physical oceanography and meteorology make Earth habitable?  The fundamentals of physical oceanography and meteorology makes Earth habitable in several different ways.  If we did not have the ocean we would not be here at all so the ocean is very important. The Earth basically runs off the ocean. It is the highway for many things.

The ocean is a major influence on weather and climate. The ocean is truly an incredible thing for what it does for the world. The ocean is much more complex than what the average person thinks. Before I took oceanography I thought the ocean was just a pool of water that is there for transport and starting hurricanes but there is much more I didn't know about. I always knew the ocean was full of currents but I never actually realized how complex they really are. There are small currents everywhere but there are also big constant currents such as the Gulf Stream. The Gulf Stream goes all around the world and what it basically does is bring warm or cool air around the world. A good example of this is when you first turn on the bathtub and obviously the water it cold when you first turn it on but then right as soon as it starts getting warm, you mix the warm water with the cold. It then equals out. That is basically what the Gulf Stream and other streams are doing. It doesn't just mix water but it also does the same with oxygen. The wind gets caught with the water and wind of all different temperatures are mixed around the Earth as well.  The picture below shows how water is moved around the earth. 

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The ocean and people are inextricably interconnected. I know this because people are constantly in the ocean. Whether if it is people on a warm beach, or people crab fishing in the arctic waters. People are always using the oceans for resources or for a good time. The ocean is a giant tub of resources. The fishing industries rely on the ocean to get their pay and ocean explorers rely on the ocean for them to find something new that they can get money from, research, and put something new in the history books. Ocean exploration is an incredible thing because as of right now, the human race has only explored less than five percent of the world’s oceans. You can only imagine what we have not seen and what kind of research is to be found. Every so often, scientists find a new species of fish or creature in the deep ocean. They even find creatures that were thought to be extinct. It is truly amazing how much we have not explored. The picture below is a scuba diver discovering new things in the ocean. 

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               The ocean shapes the features of the Earth. The Earth and all the continents in general are formed by the ocean, water in general, and wind. The ocean is constantly grinding against the coasts of every coast, some more than others but they always are. Waves are always beating on beaches. It not really a problem until the waves start breaking away at beaches at an angle because that will continue to push the sand away which can block a river and then people will have to bring the sand back to the beach instead of the river. This just recently happened in Plum Island and I saw the big pumps putting sand back to the beaches. There are ways that can help with a situation like this from happening such as forming jetty’s which will only let the sand go to a certain point. You will see that a lot of beaches have jetties and man made walls to prevent this. Tides will also affect the shape of the earth. Tides will slowly bring the water level up and down continuously and you can imagine that will break at beaches and coasts. Plate tectonics can really affect a coast in violent ways such as a Tsunami or a Rogue wave. A Tsunami is a big wave that is formed by an underwater earthquake, an underwater volcanic eruption or even an asteroid falling into the ocean. Rogue waves are waves that are more than twice the size of a normal wave and the trough of a Rogue wave is unusually big and how they develop is still being investigated. The picture below is what looks like a fishing boat and it is going over a large wave. Possibly a rogue wave. 

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Earth is habitable because of the fundamentals in oceanography and meteorology. Currents and wind are ways how the great oceans affect climate and the weather. If it wasn't for the currents and streams in the ocean then I bet the weather and climate would be much different than it is today. If it weren't for explorers and fishermen than the ocean and the people wouldn't be as inextricably interconnected. Ocean explorers still has more than 95 percent of the ocean to explore and I can imagine that can be overwhelming but I can only imagine what they might find. There are so many things we don’t know about under the surface of the oceans. Waves, tides, and plate tectonics are the reason why our continents are shaping the way they are. Tides are probably the biggest way that our Earth is shaped.  The Earth is a major Influence on weather and climate, the ocean and people are inextricably interconnected, and the ocean shaped the features of the Earth.