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Human activity has increased the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The carbon dioxide not only remains in the air, but also enters into the oceans. Explain how the increased level of carbon dioxide in the ocean water has the potential to affect biodiversity. Then, predict what would happen to ocean ecosystems as a result of this loss.

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The enhanced level of carbon dioxide in the ocean can turn the pH of the seawater more acidic. As the water in the ocean becomes more acidic the calcium carbonate shells, which is a component of various species starts to dissolve.  

The majority of these species are the secondary or the primary producers, thus, the base of the food web would start declining in the biodiversity. Thus, if the base of the food web began to decline, the animals found further in the food web also gets affected, thus, reducing the biodiversity of the ocean in complete.  

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  • A section of the atmospheric CO2  is received by means of the oceans in the Earth’s strive to create an equilibrium.
  • Ocean Acidification is damaging to the increase of sea organisms and will disrupt the ecosystem due to loss of sea life

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  • Explain how the increased level of carbon dioxide in the ocean water has the potential to affect biodiversity. Then, predict what would happen to ocean ecosystems as a result of this loss.

Ocean Acidification

  • A section of the atmospheric CO2  is received by means of the oceans in the Earth’s strive to create an equilibrium.
  • Extra absorption of CO2 by means of the oceans reasons a reduce in the pH of the water which can cause Ocean Acidification.

  • Ocean Acidification is damaging to the increase of sea organisms
  • This in flip will have an effect on the boom of different species that rely on these organisms- disrupting a cycle that influences the complete biodiversity

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