Causes
Deliberately tossing sewage, radioactive waste, cigarettes, fish nets and plastics into the water
What is ocean disposal?
The cause of runoff that creates chemicals, fertilizer (nitrate), pesticides that lead to the overpopulation of plants and unsafe waters in the ocean
What are agricultural farms?
this type of organism uses carbonate ions to form a hard shell and ocean acidification is making it difficult to maintain the shell.
what is a calcifying organism
What is the ability to shelter and protect many species?
The human activity of burning hydrocarbons to produce energy, but subsequently emits large amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere
These metals have relatively high density and atomic number and are usually found on the ocean floor such as gold, lead, and copper which leads to poisonous water.
What is a heavy metal
the calcifying organism most affected by ocean acidification.
what is coral
The thing that dictates an organisms' ability to survive and reproduce, which acidification has a deadly effect on
What is biological fitness?
The removal of trees and vegetation reduces the amount of carbon dioxide absorbed from the atmosphere, leading to increased levels of CO2 and subsequent ocean acidification.
What is deforestation?
Chemicals stored in power plants such as silver and nitrogen being stored into the clouds and returning into the water
What is acid rain
a category of calcifying organism that uses a shell to protect itself which is responsible for filtering water and is in danger due to ocean acidification.
what is a bivalve
The sense that can be inhibited due to the effects ocean acidification.
What is smell?
Rising temperatures in the oceans influence the solubility of CO2, leading to increased absorption and subsequent acidification of the seawater.
What is climate change?
This human act of disposing of human waste into the oceans which assists in dissolving carbon compounds in the waste and contributes to ocean acidification
What is waste pollution?
the ion responsible for interfering with the reaction in creating the shells for calcifying organisms.
what is a hydrogen ion
The main reason why aquatic organisms do not directly die due to changes in acidity.
What are buffer systems?
This greenhouse gas, released primarily from burning fossil fuels, dissolves in seawater, forming carbonic acid, a major driver of ocean acidification.
What is carbon dioxide?
A naturally formed structure on the sea floor that created and released hot minerals up to 120C causing certain parts of the water to turn into hot springs.
What is a hydrothermal vent
an effect on coral due to ocean acidification that causes the coral to weaken significantly often leading to its death.
what is bleaching
The major ecological consequence of lacking biological fitness in a single or multiple important species.
What is a trophic cascade?