Part one of term paper
The great oceans are dying. The effects of pollution are taking their toll on marine life. As the Earth’s waters are being attacked by natural and man-made contaminants, marine plants and animals are paying the high price. The definition of is the “contamination of water by foreign matter that deteriorates the quality of the water.” ...

Part two of term paper
... identified. The obvious point source type is garbage. Humans dump tons of trash in the ocean on a daily basis. In 1993, the Center for Marine Conservation sponsored a nation-wide beach clean-up. Volunteers collected over 7 million pieces of trash.1 The worst offenders are commercial ships. The world fleet of commercial boats dump over 5,550,000 plastic, metal, and glass containers into the ocean in a single day.2 The most harmful of these is plastic. Sea mammals such as birds and dolphins often get ...