Oceanography Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (35) essays
Oceanography essays:
This is an essay I did on explaining how gravity works as well as how it effects the tides... How high tide and low tide work
... downward force on any body of mass, the larger the mass of the body, the stronger the gravitational force. On earth the force is 9.8 N/Kg (Newton's per Kilogram) roughly, depending on where you are on earth. Gravitation The original idea of gravity was discovered by Sir Isaac Newton (Jacob ...
The Mariana Trench- Science Report
... trench is home to thousands of deep sea creatures that mingle down below sea level at amazing pressures. The deep sea is home to the largest ecosystem. Millions of inhabitants crowd at the bottom of the earth's ocean floor to live a quite life bothering no one. This trench is where the Pacific Plate ...
Oceanography as viewed from space
... war (Pinet 181). At the beginning of the space age, just after World War II , rockets (although never in orbit) used movie cameras to photograph the surface (Pinet 182). The first manned shuttles took pictures of Earth and realized there were many observations of the oceans ...
Fishing Techniques
... need to do is tie on a lure and drag it behind the boat, in the hope of producing a reaction bite from the fish. This system is used primarily to catch small ... because it was the first pike I have ever caught or seen in real life. We threw the monster into the live well and headed back to the lodge ...
Rulers of the Jurassic Sea
... on its original origins. He explains how unusual the species was and how important it is to uncover the true reason for its evolution from a land creature into a deep-sea hunter. The Ophthalmosaurus was one of ...
"The Hungry Ocean": A look at the book and Oceanography.
... of the water at the depth in which the hooks are set. Weather on the ocean is a variable in which is kept track of by most fisher-people due to the importance of storms at sea. Low pressure systems can create havoc in the open seas ...
The Coral Reef Ecosystem
... of at least 109 countriesin the world, yet it has been calculated that the coral reef in at least 93 of these hasalready been gravely damaged or even destroyed. The coral reefs distributed over 60percent of the Indian Ocean and Red Sea, 25 percent of the Pacific Ocean ...
Floods: Causes and Consequences
... of wetlands, the replacement of a natural flood-control system with an artificial one based on levees is viewed by many as a guarantee that floods of ... adds to the threat of downstream flooding since the water is constricted rather than being released on the flood plain; and forced by levees into a ...
Degradation of the Coral Reefs
... world, yet it has been calculated that the coral reef in at least 93 of these has already been gravely damaged or even destroyed. The coral reefs distributed over 60 percent of the Indian Ocean and Red Sea, 25 percent of the Pacific Ocean, and 15 percent of ...
"El Nino and it's effects on coral reefs" What is El nino and how does it affect the ocean?
... ocean life. My paper will inform you about research and studies being done on the affects of El Nino . It will discuss the consequence on marine organisms. But first it will introduce you to El Nino . El Nino is a disruption of the ocean-atmosphere system in the tropical pacific ...