Ocean Animals And Plants
Ocean animals
Ecosystem Description
Seventy percent of Earth's surface is water. There are four oceans: the Atlantic ocean, the Pacific ocean, the Indian ocean, and the Arctic ocean. They form one global ocean. The landscape of the ocean floor is different. There are mountains, volcanoes, and trenches six miles deep.
Ocean water is always moving. Waves do not show movement. Plants and animals live in the oceans. Seagrass grows in shallow waters. Animals such as fish and shrimp and whales also live in the ocean.
Octopus
There is a reddish pink octopus who lives in a reef and eats small fish.
Tiger Shark
Great White Shark
Ocean Plants
Brown Seaweed
Seagrass
Kelp
Fun Facts
Human Impact
Oil and sewage spills, chemicals, and metals kill all marine ecosystems. Turtles mistake plastic bags for jellyfish. Abandoned fishing nets entangle sea birds and sea mammals.
People throw garbage and sometimes animals eat it. Overharvesting killed many ocean animals, from whales to fish. The souvenir trade threatens coral reefs.
Sometimes people clean oceans. We need to come to better laws to stop ocean pollution.