Marine+ecology

marine  - Having to do with the ocean world or environment.

marine ecologist  - A scientist who studies the ocean's ecology

[|plastic trash] - scientists estimate the seas contain about 5.25 trillion pieces of this trash. Its combined weight: an estimated 269,000 metric tons.
 * Fish and other marine organisms can ingest tiny plastic fragments. This trash can then move up the food chain as seabirds, seals and other marine predators eat those fish.
 * plastics can work like sponges, soaking up and storing toxic chemicals. These include PCBs, pesticides and flame retardants. When ingested, such plastic can release the pollutants, triggering health problems.
 * ocean plastics also provide homes for germs, some of which can cause disease.


 * What's the problem?**
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 * **Design, Build** -
 * **Improve** -


 * That's engineering**
 * toxic - Poisonous or able to harm or kill cells, tissues or whole organisms. The measure of risk posed by such a poison is its toxicity.
 * [|organism] - any individual animal, plant, bacterium, etc. having various parts or systems that function together as a whole to maintain life and its activities
 * [|disphoticzone] - the middle ocean zone that receives very little sunlight and contains no plants and few animals
 * [|intertidal] - having to do with the area of a seashore between the high-tide mark and the low-tide mark
 * [|oceanographic] - having to do with the study of oceans, including their water, biology and geology
 * [|estuary] - the part of the river where fresh water mixes with the ocean\'s salt water

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