Causes of Global Warming and Ocean Acidification
Sea Level Rising
Coral Bleaching
Marine Organisms
Miscellaneous
100
One source of the burning of fossil fuels that can affect the ocean.
What is gas emissions from the transportation of cars, airplanes, and trains or coal-fired power plants
100
The most direct human effect from sea levels rising.
What is flooding.
100
The biggest coral reef in the world.
What is the Great Barrier Reef in Australia
100
Explain how marine food webs are affected by ocean acidification and global warming.
What is primary producers and primary consumers are directly affected by climate change while secondary, tertiary, and quaternary consumers are indirectly affected. 
100
State how many oceans are there in the world and name them all.
What is four oceans: the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Arctic.
BONUS POINT: However, most countries - including the United States - now recognize the Southern (Antarctic) as the fifth ocean.
200
The two main components of fossil fuels
What is carbon and hydrogen
200
One city in the US that is in extreme danger due to sea levels rising
What is New Orleans, LA, Savannah, GA, and Miami, FL because they are low-lying coastal areas
200
Name one organism that depends on coral reefs for protection.
What is sea turtles, fish, crabs, shrimp, jellyfish, sea birds, starfish, and lobsters
200
Roughly how many people rely on fish as their main source of protein.
What is 3 billion people.
200
Nora’s favorite marine organism to eat.
What is lobster.
300
Ocean acidification occurs at this location in the water
What is the surface of the water.
300
How do glaciers melting affect sea level?
What is when the ice melts, the water flows into the oceans and sea levels rise.
FUN FACT: If all glaciers and ice sheets melted, global sea level would rise by more than 195 feet
300
The kind of coral reef that is most affected by ocean acidification.
What is cold-water corals because they are the slowest growing corals on Earth.
300
Name one way that global warming affects marine organisms.
What is...
- Causes the migration of marine species in search of cooler waters
- Affect the development and growth of organisms
- Damage to coral reefs threatens shelter, spawning grounds, and protection from predators.
300
Roughly how much percent of the Earth’s surface the ocean covers.
What is 71% of the Earth's surface.
400
State how does carbonic acid in the water change the pH levels.
What is a lower pH level.
400
How many inches are the sea levels predicted to rise by 2050?
What is 10-15 inches
400
The amount of coral reefs that have died from global warming since 1950.
What is half of the coral reefs have died since 1950.
400
State why ocean acidification affects specifically hard-shelled organisms.
What is an increase in acidity leads to a decrease in mineral calcium carbonate which is essential to form their shells and exoskeletons.
400
Name one chemical in sunscreen that is harmful to the ocean.
What is zinc oxide, avobenzone, benzophenone, or oxybenzone
500
State how the oceans are becoming increasingly warmer.
What is the rising amounts of greenhouse gasses are preventing heat radiated from Earth's surface from escaping into space as freely as it used to. Most of the excess atmospheric heat is passed back to the ocean.
500
State how the warming of the ocean can affect sea levels.
What is the ocean's surface readily uptakes heat from the air, causing the water molecules at the surface to heat up and expand. This then causes the volume of the water to increase.
500
The two main threats that cause coral reef bleaching.
What is severe heat stress causes bleaching (the expulsion of corals' food-producing algae) and ocean acidification (the drop in seawater pH as the ocean absorbs carbon dioxide) reduces the availability of calcium minerals for skeleton building and repair.
500
This map shows the annual centers of biomass for three species in the northeastern United States from 1974 to 2019. Dots are shaded from light to dark to show change over time.
Explain what is going on in this image and how it is related to global warming.
What is the species are moving northward to colder waters. Warmer waters threaten to cause mass migration of marine species in search of the right conditions for feeding and spawning.
500
What is this marine organism called?
HINT: you can eat it
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A sea cucumber.