About The PacificThe Pacific Ocean is the largest of the oceans, covering roughly a 1/3 of the surface area of the Earth and about contains about half of the water in the oceans. The climate of the open Pacific Ocean are ever changing, typically the Northern and Southern Hemispheres climates mirror one another. A phenomenon that happens in the Pacific ocean are the El Nino and the La Nina. These phenomena change the weather on both sides of the ocean, making one side warm and the other side cold. There are also hurricanes just like there are in the Atlantic ocean, but there they are called cyclones.
This ocean, like every other, is being affected by global warming. Its average temperature is rising, with that it is also getting more acidic. With the rising temperatures the storms are getting more destructive, and as it gets more acidic it creates a more stressful environment for the animals the live in the ocean. But global warming is not the only thing affecting the ocean, in the ocean we dump absurd amounts of trash, and in that trash there is plastic. Plastic takes thousands of years to break down, and now it is floating around in the ocean. To animals that see the plastic floating in the water it looks like food, so they eat it, but to their demise it is not. The animals die with bellies full of plastic and not of the food that they need. |
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