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0: Northpole
The North Pole is the northernmost point on Earth, basically lying opposite the South Pole. The North Pole unlike the South Pole is just frozen water. But the South Pole is ice on solid land.
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2: North Pacific Gyre
The north pacific gyre is one of the most important gyres' in the world. Here in the middle of the gyre sits the north pacific garbage patch.This garbage patch harms many animals such as: dolphins, sharks, turtles etc.
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5: Marine Protected Areas in Australia
Australia is one of the countries which has lots of marine protected areas. A marine protected area is a body of saltwater which is protected by the government. The following are normally prohibited in these areas: swimming, snorkling, parasailing, water sports etc.
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6: Rising Sea Levels
Sea levels are rising because of global warming. Many parts of Greenland is already under water because of global warming melting the poles.
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11: The Ring of Fire
The Pacific Ring of Fire (or just The Ring of Fire) is an area where big numbers of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions take place. The Ring of Fire has 452 volcanoes and is home to over 75% of the world's active and dormant volcanoes. It is sometimes called the circum-Pacific belt or the circum-Pacific seismic belt.
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12: Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceans, covering approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface. It is surrounded on the north by the Indian Subcontinent ( India, Pakistan and Bangladesh) and Arabian Peninsula (or, more generally, by southern and western Asia); on the west by eastern Africa; on the east by Indochina, the Sunda Islands, and Australia; and on the south by the Southern Ocean
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13: Raja Ampat
Raja Ampat is the most biodiversed place in the world. Also with many species of coral reefs.
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14: The Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest ocean in the world it covers about 20% of the Earth's surface.
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15: Arctic Ocean
The Arctic Ocean is the smallest ocean among all of the oceans. Almost completely surrounded by Eurasia and North America, the Arctic Ocean is partly covered by sea ice throughout the year and almost completely in winter.
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16: Whaling
Japan is the only country that still does whaling. to find out more about Japan whaling click the link below.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaling_in_Japan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaling_in_Japan
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17: Volcanic Islands
Volcano eruptions under the surface of the water sometimes create small archipelagos such as Hawaii.
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18: Shark Finning
Singapore stores like Cold Storage,Fair Price etc. have stopped selling shark fins because if they keep selling it, sharks will be extinct in 4 to 5 years and the stores would not be as popular and get less money.
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19: Southern Ocean
The Southern Ocean is the 4th largest among the five oceans. The Southern Ocean basically circle's Antarctica.
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20: Bottom Trawling
Bottom trawling is when people use big and heavy nets to fish
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21: Oil Spills
In 2010 an oil spill occurred in the Gulf of Mexico when people did something wrong while drilling holes in the ocean for oil. This mistake is another reason for why people have to be warned that the oceans might be creature less one day and when it does the effect will be irreversible.
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22: Global Warming
The ice on the poles are melting into the ocean because of global warming, which is caused by the sun's rays getting trapped inside the atmosphere because of the greenhouse gas net.
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23: Endangered Animals
Off the cost of New Zeland there is a very endangered dolphin called the Hectors Dolphin with only 110 of fthem left. they are also the smallest dolphin in the world. to learn more about the Hectors Dolphin then click on the link below.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector's_dolphin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector's_dolphin
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26: The Eastern Pacific Leather Back Sea Turtle
The Eastern Pacific Leatherback sea turtles nest in Costa Rica and in Mexico. They are also the largest sea turtles in the world. These large animals are endangered with only 115,000 left in the world.
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28: Plankton
There are several species of plankton in the ocean one group of plankton is zoo-plankton and the other is phyto-plankton. In these two groups many types of plankton exist. Phyto-plankton is at the very bottom of the oceanic food chain and zoo-plankton is the 2nd to the bottom of the food chain. Phyto-plankton are the plant species of plankton and zoo-plankton is the animal species of plankton
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29: Endangered Animals
The leopard seal is an endangered animal and lives in Antarctica.
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30: The Making of Currents
The amount of salt, temperature and wind cause currents.
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31: Plastic Bags
California is trying to ban plastic bags. they are trying to make this happen because of the pollution that it is causing.
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32: The Great Garbage Patch
This is a place where plastic goes and is trapped by the currents which go round and round, this is called a gyre. The great garbage patch is 2 times bigger than texas and is 10 meters deep throughout the whole thing.
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33: Pacific Ocean
It is the biggest and the busiest of all oceans. It covers one-third of the whole area on planet earth, which makes it bigger than all of earth's land surface area combined.
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34: Galapagos Penguin
The Galapagos Penguin is a penguin which only exists in the Galapagos Islands. It is the only penguin that lives north of the equator.
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35: Marine Protected Areas
Oregon's first network of Marine Reserves and Marine Protected Areas.
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36: Endangered Animals
The polar bears that live here in the north pole are endangered because of global warming. They are very beautiful creatures but are very endangered. Also they get hunted.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KWoDnXJwsg
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37: The Endangered Penguins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3pt7m4B0_4
These penguins may seem like they are having fun. But actually they are endangered. One of their main threats is global warming. Which is caused by the sun's rays which are getting trapped in the green house gas layer which is their because of our bad gases that we use and are let out year after year.
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38: Mariana Trench
The Mariana Trench or Marianas Trench is the deepest part of the world's oceans. It is located in the western Pacific Ocean, to the east of the Mariana Islands. The trench is about 2,550 kilometres (1,580 mi) long but has a mean width of only 69 kilometres (43 mi). It reaches a maximum-known depth of about 10.91 kilometres (6.78 mi) at the Challenger Deep, a small slot-shaped valley in its floor, at its southern end, although some unrepeated measurements place the deepest portion at 11.03 kilometres (6.85 mi). If Mount Everest, the highest mountain on Earth at 8,848 metres (29,029 ft), was set in the deepest part of the Mariana Trench, there would be 2,060 metres (6,760 ft) of water left above it.to find out more about the Marina trench click the link below.
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39: Mountain of Plastic Bottles
In Chennai, there is a mountain of plastic bottles from the U.S. that get sent to Chennai for no reason and it get thrown in other peoples yards and just stay there.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1209-10.htm
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1209-10.htm
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40: The Yukon River
The Yukon River has the longest freshwater migration route of any salmon, over 3,000 kilometers (1,864 feet).
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41: Plastic Bags Banned
Germany and South Africa has banned plastic bags.
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42: Plastic Bags BANNED!
San Francisco was the first city in America to banned plastic bags.
The plastic bags made with petroleum are blamed for littering streets and choking marine life.
The plastic bags made with petroleum are blamed for littering streets and choking marine life.
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43: Tropical Cyclones
A tropical cyclone is a type of storm which brings numerous thunderstorms that produce strong winds and heavy rain. Tropical cyclones strengthen when water evaporates from the ocean and released as sticky air also called humid air rises, resulting in condensation of water vapor contained in the moist air. Global warming and the green house effect also causes more of these natural disasters.
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44: The Great Barrier Reefs
The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system designed with over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,600 kilometres covering an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres. The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland in north-east Australia.
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45: Whale Sharks and Plankton
The whale shark is found in tropical and warm oceans and lives in the open sea with a lifespan of about 70 years. Although whale sharks have very large mouths, as filter feeders they feed mainly, on plankton, which are microscopic plants and animals.
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46: The Strait of Malacca
Strait of Malacca is a narrow, 805 km (500 mi) stretch of water between the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian island of Sumatra. It is named after the Malaccan King that ruled over the archipelago between 1414 and 1511.
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47: Plastic bags
A California state law is that you now have to pay for your plastic bags.
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48: Endangered Cod
In newfoundland there are endangered cod. They are endangered because fishermen used to over fish.
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49: The Great Barrier Reef
The Great Barrier Reef is the worlds largest reef. It is home to many animals. It is located off the coast of Australia. To learn more about the Great Barrier Reef then click on the link below.
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