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Include the following information and address the following questions in your final presentation:
- Include detailed speaker notes.
- What are the geological features of the selected region where your organism dwells?
- What life exists in your chosen region? List the top 10 prevalent marine organisms from your chosen region.
- Select a marine organism from the region and discuss its adaptation to the environment due to two of the major environmental problems facing our oceans today: global climate change and plastic pollution.
- Discuss its relationship to the other organisms that live in the same food chain.
- Include future adaptations.
- How do the currents and tides affect your selected animal?
- Select the same animal as you did earlier in this assignment or another animal from the same region and hypothesize how it may need to adapt in the future due to natural circumstances or pollution. Will your chosen species in fact, be able to adapt to such rapid changes or go extinct?
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Arizona Marine
Habitats
Sharks in Arizona Marine Habitat
• Arizona was shaped by geological events
Arizona:
Geological
Features
that spanned up to 1.8 million years
(Reynolds et al., 2013). The rich fossil
history determines the environment today.
• The Sonoran desert is one of the sources of
the increased variety in ecosystems and
organisms among Arizona’s wildlife.
• The sea water varies in aspects such as pH,
salinity and temperature so that there is a
wide range of marine life in the Arizona
water bodies.
Arizona:
Marine
Habitats
• Shark is the most common marine
fish in Arizona and destinations such
as Sealife are places where one can
get to experience marine life in
Arizona.
• The Sea of Cortez is an example of
marine habitat, albeit outside
Arizona, it is within the Sonoran
Desert and hosts the Arizona’s
sharks including the black tip reef
shark, the zebra shark, the bamboo
shark and the white tip reef shark.
• Aquaria are thus the most common
places to find shark in Arizona.
Within Arizona, there mostly are
permanent and seasonal rivers
owing to the desert climate.
Arizona:
Marine Life
• Fishes:
Fish are a common form of marine
organisms. There are numerous types of
marine fish in the Arizona seas and
oceans. The rich fossil history of Arizona
may explain the large variety of fish that
you can find in the springs, pools and
rivers in the area.
• Dolphins
Dolphins are sea mammals, also common
to Arizona. Dolphins are mainly in seas
and oceans and areas such as Gulf of
California and the Sea of Cortez host
Arizona’s dolphins.
Arizona:
M...