Marine sponges are sessile animals that look like plants. Some marine sponges live on the seafloors over 8,800 meters (5.5 miles) deepViperfish are fierce predators Viperfish are one of the fiercest predators l
It's harder to travel in the deep ocean than in outer space I learned this when I was about 11, give or take a year. If you go too deep, the vessel you are traveling in has too much water pressure above it and gets crushed like a tin can. ...
You'll be asked about the following facts: The difference between plants and animals How plants make their own food The energy source plants use to make their own food Examples of ocean plants The chemical plants release that humans can use Skills Practiced You'll practice the followin...
There are thousands of species of seaweed, including varieties that live in oceans, rivers and lakes. The microscopic varieties of algae called phytoplankton float around, suspended in the water where they live. Seaweed, on the other hand, attaches itself to the floor of the ocean or rocks alo...
What Is the Ocean Habitat? Put on your bathing suit, bring along your goggles, and let's go explore the ocean habitat! A habitat is where living things, such as plants and animals, live along with non-living things, such as water, air, and rocks. Within the ocean habitat each plant ...
Plants help scrub greenhouse gases from the air, so when people cut down trees across a large area, greenhouse gas emissions rise. Before the industrial revolution, there were about 280 CO2 molecules for every million molecules in the atmosphere, or 280 parts per million (ppm). As of 2021...
Within the world's oceans, there are many different marine habitats. But what about the ocean as a whole? Here you can learn facts about the ocean, how many oceans there are and why they're important. Basic Facts About the Ocean
Majority of the animals and plants that reside in the ocean biome exist in areas of the ocean that are rarely visited by people. Interesting Ocean Biome Facts: The ocean is made of saltwater. This salt comes from the rocks on land that gets swept into the ocean. There is about one ...
Baleen is a strainer-like bony material that most of the largest whales have instead of teeth. The largest animal in the world - the blue whale- is a baleen whale that feeds on the tiny plants and creatures that remain in its mouth after it strains the water out by raising its tongue ...
Seaweed farming can reduce ocean acidification by absorbing carbon dioxide. Kelp absorbs 5 times more carbon than most land plants (Coomber 2019) Grow more phytoplankton (but overall effect on food chain unknown) Geoengineering may help reduce carbon in the atmosphere. New technologies may remove ca...