Aquatic Biomes
This site will provide you with information about, what an aquatic biome is? What animals and plants thrive in this biome? What damage we have and will do to the aquatic biomes around the world and ways we can help the water and environment of this biomes. The types of aquatic biomes will also be discussed on their corresponding pages. To start with this page will give you the basic characteristics and facts about our world's aquatic biomes. There are two types of Aquatic Biomes, Fresh water and Salt water, but salt water is generally referred to as marine biome. Marine biomes as suggested before are the type of aquatic biomes that have salt water in them, this means this type of aquatic biome can only be found in the ocean, where as fresh water can be found inland. The main type of animal found in aquatic biomes are fish, marine life and birds. The aquatic biome forms the basis of the water cycle and is vital for the survival of flora and fauna on Earth, but more importantly it is crucial for the continuance of the human race. If all the water over the earth was collected it could fill up 352,670,000,000,000,000,000 gallon sized milk containers, that is a lot of water. 73% of the worlds surface is water, 70% is water from the ocean and 3% is frozen ice caps, glaciers and other aquatic areas. 96.5% of earth's water is found in the ocean as it is the biggest from of water. If all the water in fresh water lakes and rivers were in a sphere f water the diameter would be 56.2km, now if all the water from fresh liquid lakes and swamps the diameter would be 272.8km. finally if all the water in, on and above the earth was put into a water sphere the diameter would be 1,385km or 1,385,000,000 cubic kilometres. Some factors that influence our aquatic habitats is the degree in which light penetrates the water. So where the light is still able to perform photosynthesis is called photic but where photosynthesis is no longer able to be accomplished is called aphotic. Distinct zones in aquatic areas are based on depth of the body of water, tidal flows that may pass over the water, and the temperatures or proximity of landmass that would concern the biome. Finally the oceans temperature play a key role in the worlds climate and weather, no matter where you are.
All information throughout this webpage was found in the following websites:
http://ocean.nationalgeographic.com/ocean/take-action/10-things-you-can-do-to-save-the-ocean/
http://water.usgs.gov/edu/earthhowmuch.html
http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/oceanwater.html
http://animals.about.com/od/habitat-facts/fl/aquatic-biome.htm
https://sites.google.com/site/learnbiomes/freshwater/animals-of-the-freshwater
http://marinebio.org/oceans/ocean-resources/
http://ocean.nationalgeographic.com/ocean/critical-issues-overfishing/
http://ocean.nationalgeographic.com/ocean/take-action/10-things-you-can-do-to-save-the-ocean/
http://water.usgs.gov/edu/earthhowmuch.html
http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/oceanwater.html
http://animals.about.com/od/habitat-facts/fl/aquatic-biome.htm
https://sites.google.com/site/learnbiomes/freshwater/animals-of-the-freshwater
http://marinebio.org/oceans/ocean-resources/
http://ocean.nationalgeographic.com/ocean/critical-issues-overfishing/