Oceans

Collins Canadian Discovery World Atlas

Climate,weather & Location

• Extends from the Arctic to the southern ocean in the south
• The maximum temperature is 30 degrees Celsius
• The lowest temperature is -2 degrees Celsius
• The southern part of the ocean would have a hotter temp
• The Arctic part of the ocean would have a colder temp

Negative Human Impact

• Global warming disturbs life in the ocean
• Marine life is very sensitive to water change in temp
• Affects their reproduction ability
• Affects food chains
• Animals die form change in temp and weather

Positive Human Impact

• We have Earth Day when we clean up garbage
• We now have walk to school Wednesday's
• You could walk to school instead of driving
• You could ride your bikes for longer distances

Physical landscape

• Largest ocean in the whole world
• It is 165,200,000 square kilometres
• Covers 46% of the world.
• The Pacific Ocean is located between the Americas

Negative physical landscape

• There are an abundance of oil spills in the Pacific Ocean
• Junk such as tires ,water bottles,plastic has been thrown into the ocean
• Animals were killed because of pollution

Positive physical landscape

• Humans clean up garbage to prevent killing animals.
• Humans also try to make inventions to help keep the ocean clean
• They add chlorine

Animal life

• Animals in the Pacific Ocean are....
• Whale
• Starfish
• Sharks
• Jelly fish

Negative human impact

• Sperm whale were hunted by people.
• valuable because oil is extracted from bodies.
• It is used for candles
• Up to 5,000 whales were killed

Positive human impact

• Making laws to help protect the sea animals
• People enforce those laws
• Now people can only whale hunt every 6 years

Plant life

• There are lots of plants in the Pacific Ocean
• There are different types plant that help plants and kill them
• Algae is a form of algae

Negative human impact

• Humans are taking away the algae and moving it
• Humans are putting too much algae in one place where not needed
• Humans are leaving algae which is growing in areas not needed

Positive human impact

• Algae is a good producer so humans some times leave it in specific areas
• Algae is over populating so humans are moving them to small lakes in pacific
• Humans are helping the algae grow in more less populated areas

Bibliography

• Champion,Neil.Caring for the planet seas and oceans.
• Hudak,Heather. Oceans
• World info zone.com
• Plant life
• Answers.com and centre for ocean solution