Marine Science:
The main research of the open ocean today is focus around pollution. The pollution problem is bigger than ever before and it is only getting worse. At the moment there is a pile of trash in the pacific ocean called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch just floating around due to ocean currents adding trash to the pile every year. They are doing experiments using satellite imagining to measure the size of the Great pacific Garbage Patch. The size of the Garbage patch was estimated to be a couple miles long in 2009. Now it is current 2 times the size of the entire state of Texas! If action isn’t take soon the garbage patch is hypothesized that if it continues growing at the same rate it will be 22% large by 2025. This will be one of the longest lasting field observations as research has gone all the way back to 1997.
Sea Floor:
Open ocean takes up almost 71% of Earth. Its basins include: Atlantic Ocean, Southern Pacific Ocean, Northern Pacific Ocean, Arctic Ocean and Indian Ocean. Yes, There is plenty of tectonic Plate movement especially in the Pacific Ocean. The movement is so fast that it is predicted that California will fall off the US. There are a lot of geological feature in the open ocean. One of the most famous geological feature is Mariana Trench, reaching a maximum depth 36,070ft. The most traumatic effect of the habitat are Hurricanes can harm the natural coral reefs but most fish scene the hurricane and can escape
Micro-organism of the Open Ocean:
Pelagibacter ubique is my microorganism. It thrives cause it is one of the most abundant, smallest and simplest, self-replicating, and free living cell in the open ocean. It is able to survive because of its size it only has one or two predators. It helps because it absorbs nitrogen that is harmful to other fish. they make up 25% of all micro-prokaryotic single celled organisms and since they hold nitrogen them greatly benefit the ocean
Plants of the Open Ocean:
Diatom is my Plant. It is a singled cell plant it structure is like any other plant cell, just one of them. They reproduce asexually and are full grown when the cell divides. they produce oxygen through photosynthesis. They only water conditions are salt water and light to eat. It increases the oxygen in its habitat and because its single celled it doesn’t take up a lot of space.
Invertebrates of the Open Ocean:
The immortal Jellyfish from the Cnidaria phylum is my Invertebrates. It is in a dome shape with tentacles the hang from the center of its dome to the bottom. It eats small fish and zooplankton and reproduces sexually. It protects itself using its stingers to sting predators. they however do not have specialized cells beside their stingers that produce venom. My organism doesn’t really harm the habitat but they are a food source so they do benefit some creatures.
Fish of The Open Ocean:
Stingrays are Cartilaginous Fish. The Fish has its mouth on the bottom of its body and is very flat and moves by flapping its fins like a bird. Stingrays normally travel in packs or “schools”. It eats other fish by swimming onto of them then biting them with their mouth. It reproduces sexually and breathes through gills. This fish is specially cause of its stinger on its tail used to protect itself. It just swims around and looks for mates most of the day but spends some time eating and resting on the sea floor. They eat a wide variety of fish controlling the populating which prevents overpopulation, protecting the ecosystem.
My Aquarium 