The ocean is a very huge and diverse area that is filled with many different types of creatures and organisms. The types of organisms change within a few feet of moving from one area to another. Different things such as oxygen levels, sun light and temperature affect where animals can live. If an animal is placed into a new area it might not be able to let the creature stay alive due to the water being different. It also depends on the other animals that live by the creature because it is a circle of life in the ocean every animal needs each other to live. If you were to take out an animal from the circle of life you could potentially cause an extinction of almost every creature out there, that’s how vital it is. Some of the different areas we examined at the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium include the mudflats, inner and outer beaches. While surveying the different areas you would see the change of different species in a matter of feet. So many stuff comes in to play with the animals that it causes them to adapt and evolve to the different areas which cause such a diverse amount of species that pretty much all live off each other.
The first area we surveyed was the very interesting cliff base which was created over the course of about two hundred thousand years. It was pretty crazy because it showed how high the ocean level use to be way back in the past. The cliffs are very important to accumulate phytoplankton which attracts fish and the fish attract in birds to continue the ongoing circle. Next we moved onto the man made mudflats that contained small fishes which were very important to the birds. The mudflat was made to smell natural and organic to attract other small bugs to also help the birds. During high tide it would create a small so to say mud island for the birds to come and pick the small fishes with ease even though we saw the mudflats at low tide when there was no mud island. The mudflats are designed to keep adolescent fish for about a year till they...