Trivia
This is the average pH level of seawater.
What is 8.2?
Ocean acidity has increased by 30% since the beginning of this important event in American history.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Ocean acidification is caused when this chemical compound is absorbed by water.
What is carbon dioxide?
Ocean acidification causes this to seawater on the pH scale.
What is to decrease?
This is the most obvious, but most difficult way to prevent ocean acidification.
What is to reduce global CO2 emissions?
This is the amount of increase of acidity in seawater in the last 200 years. (percentage)
What is 30 percent?
Each year, the ocean absorbs this percentage of the world's CO2 emissions.
What is 25 percent?
When CO2 is absorbed by water, chemical reactions cause a decrease in this measure.
What is pH?
This type of energy source is a main cause for ocean acidification.
What are fossil fuels?
This is a good local solution.
What is to encourage action to reduce, prevent, or even eliminate local environmental pressures, such as overfishing and pollution.
This is how much more acidic the ocean is projected to be by 2100.
What is 100-150 percent?
Animals and plants in the sea often die young due to being sensitive to small changes in the ocean's acidity. This is because their skeletons and shells are made up of this chemical compound.
What is calcium carbonate?
Calcium carbonate minerals are the building blocks for these parts of marine animals.
What are skeletons and shells?
The carbon dioxide absorbed by the ocean comes from here.
What is the atmosphere?
This is popular way for an individual to help with ocean acidification and global warming.
What is to reduce your carbon footprint?
Seawater is typically more acidic in this type of weather.
What is cold weather?
This type of species may even benefit from ocean acidification.
What are non-calcifying photosynthetic algae?
This action happens to ocean that is heavily affected by human activity.
What is supersaturation?
This causes fewer trees to be available to absorb carbon dioxide.
What is deforestation?
This is another popular way to spread the word about ocean acidification.
What is to educate friends and family of this issue?
Ocean acidification was only discovered in 2006 by this consultant for the Department of Energy.
Who is Ken Caldeira?
Species in the ocean may lose energy due to ocean acidification. This is because ocean acidification causes this.
What is an acid imbalance?
Ocean acidification causes undersaturation in this part of the ocean.
What are places not affected by humans?
This is how plants being cut down and burned or left to rot affect the ocean's acidity.
The carbon from their organic tissue is released as carbon dioxide, which then eventually is absorbed by the ocean.
This is a good way for global leaders to prevent CO2 emissions caused by major corporations.
What is to impose regulations that prevent these corporations from using and spreading fossil fuels?