Plants life in the Ocean

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Plants life in the Ocean

• By
• Cecilia Carrillo, Daniela Cedillo,
• and Susana Muñoz

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• Ocean plants are located near the surface where
  the sunlight can reach them because they need
  sunlight for energy.
• They combine sunlight with nutrients from the
  ocean water to make food.

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Notes

• Plants absorb large amount of substance like
  carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, sulfur.
• They are many plants in the ocean that include
  seaweed, rockweed, and sea grass.
• Plants in the ocean produce over half the worlds
  oxygen.
• The most important plants in the ocean are too
  small to be seen without a microscope.
• Ocean color tells you how much phytoplankton
  there is in the water.

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• Plants absorb large amount of substance like
  carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur.
• The elements nitrogen, phosphorus and silicon are
  critical nutrients for the growth of plants.

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Types of plants in the ocean

• This plant is call Authoplera Elagantissima and
  is 20 inches long.
• This plant is Northern red anemone and it is 5
  inches long.

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Question

• True or False
• The substances that plants absorb are carbon,
  hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur.
• The nutrients for the growth of plants are
  hydrogen.
• The plants need to absorb substance for life.
• The plants are important to give us oxygen.
• The word photosynthesis means the conversion of
  light energy into chemical energy by living
  organisms.

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Vocabulary

• Plankton free-floating, microscopic ocean plants
  and animals.
• Photosynthesis conversion of light energy into
  chemical energy by living organisms.