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    Research Paper On The Gulf of Mexico, DEAD ZONE: Jimin Period 9

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    The Gulf of Mexico is located between North America and Mexico. It measures 1,600 km across and 900 km vertically, covering 1.5 million square km. Dead zones are low-oxygen areas that lack sufficient oxygen to support marine life. The Gulf of Mexico has a major dead zone caused by excessive nutrients from the Mississippi River drainage. Heavy rains and snowmelt carry nitrogen and phosphorus from farms and cities into the river and out into the Gulf. This triggers algal blooms that deplete oxygen in the water, making it difficult for animals to survive. The growth of algae is limited by the availability of nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus, and the resulting algal blooms can rapidly deplete oxygen from large

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    The Gulf of Mexico is located between North America and Mexico. It measures 1,600 km across and 900 km vertically, covering 1.5 million square km. Dead zones are low-oxygen areas that lack sufficient oxygen to support marine life. The Gulf of Mexico has a major dead zone caused by excessive nutrients from the Mississippi River drainage. Heavy rains and snowmelt carry nitrogen and phosphorus from farms and cities into the river and out into the Gulf. This triggers algal blooms that deplete oxygen in the water, making it difficult for animals to survive. The growth of algae is limited by the availability of nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus, and the resulting algal blooms can rapidly deplete oxygen from large

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    The Gulf of Mexico is located between North America and Mexico. It measures 1,600 km across and 900 km vertically, covering 1.5 million square km. Dead zones are low-oxygen areas that lack sufficient oxygen to support marine life. The Gulf of Mexico has a major dead zone caused by excessive nutrients from the Mississippi River drainage. Heavy rains and snowmelt carry nitrogen and phosphorus from farms and cities into the river and out into the Gulf. This triggers algal blooms that deplete oxygen in the water, making it difficult for animals to survive. The growth of algae is limited by the availability of nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus, and the resulting algal blooms can rapidly deplete oxygen from large

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    Research paper on the Gulf of Mexico, DEAD ZONE

    Jimin Period 9

    The Gulf of Mexico is located at the southeastern corner of


    North America and it is a Mediterranean- type sea. It is bordered
    by the United States in the north such as Florida, Alabama,
    Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas) and six Mexican states in the west
    (Quintana Roo,Tamaulipas, Veracruz,Tabasco, Yucatan,
    Campeche) and the Cuban Islands in the southeast.
    The Gulf measures around 1,600 kilometers from side to
    side and 900 kilometers from top to bottom and has a surface
    area of 1.5 million square kilometers.
    Dead zones are low-oxygen areas among the worlds
    oceans, seas and large lakes. It is mainly caused by the
    excessive nutrient pollution from humans and our activities with
    other factors that deplete the oxygen needed to support most life
    beings of marine animals in bottom and near- bottom water.

    The
    extremely heavy rains heavily falling and melting snows washed
    down a massive amount of nutrients. Mostly, nitrogen and
    phosphorous from lawns, sewage, farm land and other sources
    along the Mississippi River flowed into the Gulf of Mexico.
    These nutrients required for plant and crop growth, trigger
    algae blooms that choke off and takes away oxygen in water and
    make it difficult and impossible for marine life to survive in the
    water.

    dead

    These
    zones

    can be caused by an increase in chemical nutrients just like


    mentioned above (phosphorus and nitrogen in the water) and this
    is known as eutrophication. These chemicals are the fundamental
    and basic building blocks of single-celled, plant-like organisms
    that live inside the water column.
    Also, this growth is limited in part by the availability of these
    materials. This process called eutrophication can lead to a rapid
    increases in the density of algal bloom. Algal bloom is a
    phenomenon
    of
    phytoplankton.

    Due to these
    things,
    the
    seriousness of
    this problem is also said by many scientist. Limnologist, David
    Schindler, who researched about these kind of problems made a
    statement about these things as below.
    "The fish-killing blooms that devastated the Great Lakes in the
    1960s and 1970s haven't gone away; they've moved west into an
    arid world in which people, industry, and agriculture are
    increasingly taxing the quality of what little freshwater there is to
    be had here....This isn't just a prairie problem. Global expansion

    of dead zones caused by algal blooms is rising rapidly...(Schindler


    and Vallentyne 2008).

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