7.11B Human Impacts on Ocean Systems

Humans depend on the ocean for all of the following except?

• Food

• Transportation

• Trash Storage

• Jobs

Oceans play an important role in what important global cycle?

• Carbon dioxide levels

• Water Cycle (Freshwater production)

• Oxygen production

• All of the above

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Is the following an example of a positive or negative impact on the earth's ocean systems?

Artificial reefs placed on the seafloor enhance marine life by creating new reef habitats.

• Positive Human Impact on Ocean Systems

• Negative Human Impacts on Ocean Systems

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Is the following an example of a positive or negative impact on the earth's ocean systems?

Commercial fishing nets often times scrape the seafloor scooping up everything in its path. Dredge fishing destroys habitat and kills bycatch (fish, sharks, and other marine life caught unintentionally).

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Is the following an example of a positive or negative impact on the earth's ocean systems?

Fertilizers from farms runoff into rivers and create dead zones at the mouth of rivers in our world's oceans.

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Is the following an example of a positive or negative impact on the earth's ocean systems?

Fishing licenses regulate the number of fish and the size of fish that can be caught.

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Is the following an example of a positive or negative impact on the earth's ocean systems?

Fishing regulations create fishing seasons (time of year people are allowed to fish) to allow fish the opportunity to reproduce and increase species population.

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Is the following an example of a positive or negative impact on the earth's ocean systems?

The great pacific garbage patch collects trash from our oceans currents from around the world.

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Is the following an example of a positive or negative impact on the earth's ocean systems?

Recycling trash helps prevent plastic and other unwanted trash from entering our ocean systems.

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• Negative Human Impacts on Ocean Systems

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Is the following an example of a positive or negative impact on the earth's ocean systems?

Human development in wetlands, estuaries, and protected bays.

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• Negative Human Impacts on Ocean Systems

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