Coral Reefs, seaweed, kelp and plankton. Just a handful of lifeforms that we find in waters where light can reach, where plankton can photosynthesise, and for a complex array of plants and animals to build upon that in a food chain. In this video, I explore the origins of Earth's seas, continental shelfs, and how life has developed within this biome.
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👉0:00 Opening Montage
👉0:27 Introduction and Titles
👉1:40 Formation of the Oceans
👉2:50 Shallow Seas vs Deep Oceans
👉3:20 Continental Shelf
👉4:40 Climate Change and Sea Level Change
👉5:35 Composition of Seawater
👉6:48 Light Penetration in Seawater
👉7:43 Plankton
👉9:33 Seaweed, Kelp and Animal Food Chains
👉10:20 Coral
👉11:58 Environmental Threats
👉13:49 Outro
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In the formation of the Earth, a small fraction of the original material was ice. This eventually formed the oceans and seas as we know them today. Where light can penetrate the sea bottom, around the coastlines and within the continental shelfs, life can flourish.
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Seawater is about 3.5% minerals, with most of this being in the form of sodium chloride, and hence the water is saline. Plants and animals must evolve to cope with this salt in their internal membranes and tissues.
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The presence of light means photosynthesis, and this is the reason that shallow seas are so rich, with various types of plankton, microscopic plants and bacteria, being able use light to convert water and CO2 into organic matter. Other plankton feed upon these, and krill, jellyfish, crustaceans, molluscs, fish, sharks and whales feed in a complex food chain upon the rest.
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Sea flora, beyond the microscopic, consists of seaweed and kelp which a multicellular forms of algae. But the most notable "fixed" living organisms within the shallow seas are corals, which are in fact animals that have a photosynthetic symbiote within their cells. Corals grow through cloning and sexual reproduction to form coral reefs, as they excrete calcium carbonate at their base.
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Threats to the shallow seas ecosystem include the bleaching of coral reefs, overfishing, and marine plastic pollution.
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FURTHER READING:
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@Geodiodeمنذ 3 سنواتWhat is your experience of the Shallow Seas? Tropical beaches? Coral scuba diving? Or with a wetsuit in the "temperate" latitudes? 14
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@ashleypenn7845منذ 3 سنواتAnother excellent addition to our lessons. Having grown up in South Florida where beaches, snorkeling, and glass-bottom boat tours are just another part id="hidden1" class="buttons"> of every day life, it's a biome I'm very familiar with. And yet you still managed to teach me a few new things! ....وسعت12
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@nitesh7241منذ 3 سنواتAnother master piece!!!!! I bow for the amount of hardwork to put in to make these videos. 7
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@MiPaisMiMundoمنذ 3 سنواتOmg! This video went without advise down of the list. youtube failed. amazing video, so fully explained 2
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@St.EmileSchoolقبل 7 أشهرThat was awesome. Loved it this year, just like last. See you again next year, bro. 1
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@melinakerifanمنذ 3 سنواتThank you for the wonderful birthday present I didn't expect you at all to touch on the seas and oceans so this was extremely educational and very fascinating. Amazing work 4
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@user-mv6vz4gz8qقبل 6 أشهرThis presentation is amazing. It is very concise, yet extremely informative and I was able to take notes very easily while watching and learning! Thank you!
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@TocTocTraxمنذ 3 سنواتI really enjoyed watching your upload!! Keep up the excellent work! I'm looking forward to another awesome video!! Take care and stay in touch!! 2
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@MarkieLiebeمنذ 3 سنواتAmo el contenido de este canal, los videos son interesantes, educativos y una verdadera obra de arte. Creo que en este mund globalizado tenemos id="hidden5" class="buttons"> la oportunidad de informarnos y compartir información con muchas personas, y cuidar nuestros ecosistemas marinos y mejorar nuestros hábitos alimenticios para tratar de no impactar negativamente el ambuente. Tengo que compartir este hermodo video!! ....وسعت3
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@gregsimones9295منذ 3 سنواتI use your beautiful and informative videos in my college classes. 5
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@westy6214منذ 3 سنواتLovely video I enjoy a lot. There was damage to local sea food and reef by pollutants and illegal activity in the Taiwan area but preservation efforts are doing well to keep them in good shape. 4
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@elizabethcherryblossom3951منذ 3 سنواتHi ☺Geodiode! Nice video☺!where i live just have river and lakes; but this seas are so wonderful; 2
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@klayvonismeمنذ 2 سنواتWow, fantastic! Super wonderful videos!!!
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@Justin-fd7tgمنذ 3 سنواتWow instantly subscribed. Wish I found out this channel sooner 1
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@shiningstar3393العام الماضيWhat a quality of video So lovely
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@Auroral_Anomalyقبل 5 أشهرInterestingly the continental shelf exists because of the last ice age, the lower water level eroded the coast to a certain extent and they have yet to conform to the current sea level.
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@wonderful7878منذ 3 سنواتAs a geography and astronomy learner, I really fall in love with your channel. Keep it up for your amazing videos. Who else likes gegraphy ? 4
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@RobinsVoyageالعام الماضيI was hoping it would be longer. I live in the Philippines and was shocked that they are such a massive marine polluter.
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@corki9930منذ 3 سنواتI think the only qualm I have with this video is that personally. I wouldn't liked more explanations on the CONDITIONS where kelp and other sea plants id="hidden8" class="buttons"> thrive. But I understand if you were busy and all and it was ALOT to put together. And of course the sea grass but well. I think you're already PAINFULLY aware of that. ....وسعت1
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@stevoplexالعام الماضيI just remembered a rather unique biome that's found on every continent whose conditions are key for preserving archeological evidence, yet, are never id="hidden9" class="buttons"> much studied as a whole because they are mostly discontiguous and also are unique sites nestled inside of bigger, more general biomes. I'm talking about Shallow Graves. ☠ ....وسعت
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@unni.m1959منذ 3 سنواتDo videos on countries and their climate. Go with India next. Focus more on western ghats , Andaman and nicobar islands and himalayas. 2
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@sensitivedesensitivity7349منذ 2 سنواتDon’t western nations send their plastic waste to eastern countries for disposal? Eastern nations (especially China) do need to better manage their disposal of plastic waste, but it seems a bit dishonest to point the finger at the east when we are certainly somewhat responsible for the predicament. ....وسعت1
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@dennispettigrewمنذ 2 سنواتWhen is water invisible to the naked eye?
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@yoironfistbro8128منذ 3 سنواتCan't wait for when bees are added to Earth in the next update, oh wait. 1
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@chefnycمنذ 3 سنواتSo banning plastic straws in US won’t save the ocean life? I am disapppointed 1
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@jem5878منذ 3 سنوات@11.13, isn't spore the agent of asexual reproduction? 1
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@gauravjha9847منذ 3 سنواتPlease dont show the Distorted Map of India in your Videos 1
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@ashleypenn7845منذ 3 سنواتAnother excellent addition to our lessons. Having grown up in South Florida where beaches, snorkeling, and glass-bottom boat tours are just another part id="hidden11" class="buttons"> of every day life, it's a biome I'm very familiar with. And yet you still managed to teach me a few new things! ....وسعت12
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@MarkieLiebeمنذ 3 سنواتAmo el contenido de este canal, los videos son interesantes, educativos y una verdadera obra de arte. Creo que en este mund globalizado tenemos id="hidden15" class="buttons"> la oportunidad de informarnos y compartir información con muchas personas, y cuidar nuestros ecosistemas marinos y mejorar nuestros hábitos alimenticios para tratar de no impactar negativamente el ambuente. Tengo que compartir este hermodo video!! ....وسعت3
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@corki9930منذ 3 سنواتI think the only qualm I have with this video is that personally. I wouldn't liked more explanations on the CONDITIONS where kelp and other sea plants id="hidden18" class="buttons"> thrive. But I understand if you were busy and all and it was ALOT to put together. And of course the sea grass but well. I think you're already PAINFULLY aware of that. ....وسعت1
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@stevoplexالعام الماضيI just remembered a rather unique biome that's found on every continent whose conditions are key for preserving archeological evidence, yet, are never id="hidden19" class="buttons"> much studied as a whole because they are mostly discontiguous and also are unique sites nestled inside of bigger, more general biomes. I'm talking about Shallow Graves. ☠ ....وسعت
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@sensitivedesensitivity7349منذ 2 سنواتDon’t western nations send their plastic waste to eastern countries for disposal? Eastern nations (especially China) do need to better manage their disposal of plastic waste, but it seems a bit dishonest to point the finger at the east when we are certainly somewhat responsible for the predicament. ....وسعت1
مقاطع الفيديو ذات الصلة على Shallow Seas - Continental Shelf, Coral, Plankton and Kelp - Biomes11:
forward to another awesome video!! Take care and stay in touch!! 2
Creo que en este mund globalizado tenemos id="hidden5" class="buttons"> la oportunidad de informarnos y compartir información con muchas personas, y cuidar nuestros ecosistemas marinos y mejorar nuestros hábitos alimenticios para tratar de no impactar negativamente el ambuente.
Tengo que compartir este hermodo video!! ....وسعت 3
So lovely
I live in the Philippines and was shocked that they are such a massive marine polluter.
And of course the sea grass but well. I think you're already PAINFULLY aware of that. ....وسعت 1
Go with India next. Focus more on western ghats , Andaman and nicobar islands and himalayas. 2
Creo que en este mund globalizado tenemos id="hidden15" class="buttons"> la oportunidad de informarnos y compartir información con muchas personas, y cuidar nuestros ecosistemas marinos y mejorar nuestros hábitos alimenticios para tratar de no impactar negativamente el ambuente.
Tengo que compartir este hermodo video!! ....وسعت 3
And of course the sea grass but well. I think you're already PAINFULLY aware of that. ....وسعت 1