Jvaar

she/her Just an average ocean <3

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Breaking the 4th wall

Here you can find Jvaar’s blog. She’s an ocean biome, and this blog contains all the required information. Hope you have fun reading it! (It technically starts from the bottom.)

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Some new reading!

I’ve been getting into reading again! Here are some of my favs:

https://www.nps.gov/chis/learn/nature/kelp-forests.htm

https://www.bioexpedition.com/ocean-biome/https://oceana.org/marine-life https://kids.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frym.2017.00034I

https://www.nrdc.org/issues/stop-overfishing-and-restore-fisheries

https://soundwaterstewards.org/icbw/essays/SeaLettuceUlva.htm

https://www.ducksters.com/science/ecosystems/marine_biome.php

http://kids.nceas.ucsb.edu/biomes/marine.html

https://sciencing.com/characteristics-of-a-marine-biome-12535256.html

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/oceans/reference/pacific-ocean/

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-12-16/ocean-acidification-california

https://observer.com/2019/12/california-coastal-waters-acidifying-climate-change-study/

https://www.currentresults.com/Oceans/Temperature/pacific-ocean-temperature-california-summer.php

https://caseagrant.ucsd.edu/project/discover-california-commercial-fisheries/the-ocean-environment

https://oehha.ca.gov/epic/impacts-physical-systems/coastal-ocean-temperature

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I must be spamming this page... hope you guys don’t mind!

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Under the sea algae and flowers! So cute!

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Some people have been wanting to visit me, but aren’t sure where I am, so here you go!

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Pictures of two of the animals I ran into yesterday! SO CUTE!!!

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Ew newbie behavior 

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Cool little plants!

I’ve been doing some research on plants recently! Some of my favorites are:

Tideweed- deep purple and blue algae that uses holdfasts to stay in place

Greegs- Green grass that uses the sunlight shining on the ocean for photosynthesis

Salt Cabbage- A roughly hand-shaped algae that will expand as to reach sunlight.

Petan- A daisy-like flower that absorbs water and carbon dioxide for “food”

Boaed- A collection of small plants that group together. They built up a strong resistance for a lack of oxygen in case they can’t access some.

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So sad to see the overfishing :(

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Quick rant

I’ll be honest- life hasn’t been easy. Fossil-fuel burning keeps giving me the worst fevers! Every time I heat up I feel like my whole ecosystem just falls apart. The breeding, migration, and life cycles around me are all up in the air!

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Things have just gotten worse- marine animals were moving farther North to find cooler waters, and a few were stranded because of plastic pollution! I feel so bad for the little guys! Overfishing/Industrial has NOT made this easier 

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Cute Animals!

I went swimming today! I found a bunch of new animals! My friend even took notes on some of them:

Octopus with three tentacles - tripus (octopus, latin prefix “tri” for three) eat clams, shrimp, fish, etc. with their tentacles - tentacles help navigate underwater

Zebra manta ray - quagga ray (quagga, part of zebra scientific name, ray) eats plankton, small fish, etc. - survive well in the dark to hide from predators

Transparent squid - pellucid teuthida (pellucid meaning transparent, teuthida scientific name for squid) eat fish, other squid, etc…. big predators due to transparency, hard to hunt (overpopulation?) - transparent to hide from predators

huge turtles (talking like 6ft tall, 12 wide here) -chelonuan (scientific name name for turtle, chelonia, and gargantuan, huge, mix) omnivores, eat sea grasses/weeds/algae, larger scale animals like bigger fish and maybe even to the size of sharks & similar - hard shell and big enough to defend itself, slow

Tiny bear-like creatures living underwater - aquatic ursamini (aquatic, underwater; ursa, bear; mini, small) carnivorous, eat small fish, clams, etc - moves quickly to prevent attackers

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Someone come over!

I haven’t seen anyone in forever! Why don’t people visit me? C’mon, me friends and I supply more than half of Earth’s oxygen, we have 90% of the volcanic activity, and I have over 1 million species!

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Quick rant

I’ll be honest- life hasn’t been easy. Fossil-fuel burning keeps giving me the worst fevers! Every time I heat up I feel like my whole ecosystem just falls apart. The breeding, migration, and life cycles around me are all up in the air!

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About me post

Hey guys- here’s my super cringy “about me” post! Let’s see... I’m a coastal ocean biome, and I can get kinda windy sometimes. I average about 39° f, but it can change a LOT due to latitude and depth. I have friends from all over, but I’m in near America to the East and Asia and Australia to the West. I don’t really have seasons, and, not to brag or anything, but I average about 50 inches of rain a year.