Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Grade 8 Week 16: Ocean Resources

We finish out the ocean's unit by examining how we use the the ocean's resources.


What resources do we get from the ocean?
What are the effects of taking ocean resources?

Contract Week 16 already has a good start on a wikipage for each ocean animal effected by humans (check out the one on Elephant Seals (yeah, I did that one, but the one on Sharks is equally good(even better))), the use of aquaculture, and a visual on ocean pollution.

6 comments:

Jericho Free said...

Mr. Hoopman did you know that the Manatee is another type of endangered species that is in the ocean.

Unknown said...

how would we get the population of the horseshue crab and the redknot up?

rachel m said...

What resources do we get from the ocean?
we get many like energy from tides and food from the fish.

What are the effects of taking ocean resources?
the effect from tidal energy is that there is no pollution the effect of fish for food is over fishing and sometimes by-catching an endangered species

Vicki Payne said...

We get resources like seafood, oil, salt,and minerals. The consequences of using these things is that we could run out of them. We don't have substitutes for all of them, so we would have to find new ways to replace them. We may also make a species go extinct by over-fishing.

JordanAustin said...

what reasorces do we got from the ocean?
we get fish for food energy from tides and waves.


what are the effects of taking ocean resources?
some people over fish and in those places the fish populaition would go down. we could also catch an endagered species or make a species go extint from over fishing.
for the tides and waves for energy the equptment we use may cut down the population of fish from destroying a habitat.
and the equiptment may eventually rust and cause polution.

Anonymous said...

Kelp, for example, has the necessary compounds to help make toothpaste. It's thickness and jell-like substance aids in making toothpaste.