megan keplar's List: Humans and the ocean

• Planktons are small organisms that are found in the upper levels of the water in oceans, lakes and rivers.
• These organisms thrive on ocean levels where there are abundant amounts of nutrients and sunlight.
• Phytoplankton are a group of plankton that reside near the surface of the water where there is enough light to sustain photosynthesis.
• he next category is Zooplankton. This group comprises of small protozoans and metazoans, this includes crustaceans such as crabs, lobsters and crayfish among others that prey on this group of plankton.

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• n the field of medicine
• It has been found that planktons can help prevent the cause of tumors within the body.
• It has also been discovered that those cancer patients that have been given plankton based medicines while after their surgery or treatments have a higher recovery rate than others.

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• Ocean  waters now cover nearly 71 percent of Earth's surface

• meteorologists
• n order to provide accurate forecasts and weather warnings, forecasters need to understand what's happening around us now and have ways to visualize what's happened in the past and what's expected in the future.