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| Figure 1 - An ocean setting. |
Imagine planning a family vacation to
your favorite beach. You pack all your belongings up, you finally get to the beach,
and you start unloading your things, you run out onto the beach and you feel
the warm sand in between your toes. This is your favorite beach that you’ve
been to so many times before. But this time it’s different!!
You see ocean
debris and garbage floating in the ocean and littering the shoreline!!
You see bits of tiny pieces floating in the water! What you see is ocean and marine pollution!!
What is Ocean Pollution
Ocean Pollution comes in two different big ways.
Point source and Nonpoint source
pollution (1).
Point source pollution defined by NOAA
is “any single identifiable source of pollution from which pollutants are
discharged, such as a pipe, ditch, ship or factory smokestack”. This means any
major garbage spill that enters our oceans, like a ship spilling oil or other garbage
or an underwater pipe bursting (2).
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| Figure 2 - Debris and litter polluting the ocean. |
The
biggest source of ocean pollution is nonpoint source pollution. It makes up 80%
of the pollution in the water! Nonpoint source can come from anywhere. Your
house, your school, anywhere you’ve ever been or anywhere you’re ever going to
go! Nonpoint source pollution comes from everywhere, which is why it’s so hard
to control. It can come from cars, pools, septic tanks, any drink you’ve
spilled, anything that’s spilled into the ground or anything that can get
washed away or carried into water (3).
All of this pollution adds up and goes into our oceans, and affects
the water and the different animals that live in it! Every mile of water has almost 10,000 different pieces of plastics
floating in it (4)! This plastic hurts the animals living in the
water and can get washed back onto the beaches which we like to swim in and
vacation to. Ocean pollution affects everything and everyone! Everything that
needs the ocean or water can be affected by pollution, that’s why we need to do
everything we can to prevent it and stop pollution from happening.
We can’t
stop all pollution from happening, but if we all do our own part, we can make a
big difference and help to stop pollution around the world, and save our
beaches and the different animals living in our oceans.
Here are a few things we
can do to save our oceans and prevent pollution.
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| Figure 3 - Recycling can lower trash found in the ocean. |
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Recycle plastics and other materials
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Carpool and drive more energy efficient cars
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Clean your local beaches and community
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Use different reusable products.
Your blog is actually really good and I enjoyed reading it. There weren't to many grammar mistakes but just make sure when you proof read that you take out the parts where you're repeating yourself. Obviously you need to cite the pictures and some stuff in the text. You should probably work on that today before submitting it. I liked the images as well as the colors you used.
ReplyDeletePat I thought your blog was well done and my favorite part was how you used a variety of different text sizes. I think the three different pictures used would definitely capture a young kids mind on how ocean pollution works. Also the variety of color used in your blog would keep a young reader interested in my opinion. I also like how you included a list of ways to help prevent ocean pollution as the list would definitely help a young kid understand more a polluting water and ways to prevent it. The one thing that it seems you did not do is cite your sources and that seems to be the only thing that you need to go back an edit on. Reading your blog I really didn't notice many grammar mistakes but just to be safe I would go back and double check before submitting your final blog.
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