Oceans Treasure Hunt

1. Pacific- 13,740 ft. Atlantic- 12,254ft. Indian- 12,740ft. Artic- 3,407 ft

2. Fingered Kelp, Bladder Wracks

3. Organize beach clean-ups; Pick up trash left behind by careless people; Support groups involved with beach clean-ups; Recycle; Care about what happens to our waters.

4. Oceans cover about 71% of the Earth's surface, equaling about 140,000,000 square miles.

5. More than 200,00 different known species of plants and animals live in the ocean.

6. The Spinner Dolphin, Octopus, Great White Shark, Sea Turtle, Lobster, Clown Fish, Sea Otter, Blue Whale, and Seahorses are just a few of the animals that live in the ocean.

7. Ocean currents are affected by wind, the water's salinity and heat content, bottom topography, and the earth's rotation.

8. Phytoplankton gives the water its greenish hue.

9. Phytoplankton use sunlight, carbon dioxide, water, and nutrients through photosynthesis to produce food. The photoplankton are eaten by the zooplankton, zooplankton are eaten by nekton, the animals then die and sink to the bottom of the ocean. The photoplankton feed on nutrients from the ocean floor and the cycle begins again.

10. One is the wind-driven surface circulation, and the other is the deepwater density-driven circulation.