Part one of term paper
We should all care. Our future is strongly linked with the state of the world's oceans. Without the ocean our Earth would be a big desert, like the moon and planet Mars. The ocean is Earth's life support which has taken billions of years to form. Without water there cannot be life. Without the oceans there would be no forests, no grasslands, ...

Part two of term paper
... and carbondioxide absorbed. The oceans contain tons of microscopic plants, or phytoplankton which lives on carbondioxide dissolved in the seawater. Oceans absorb up to 2 billion tons of carbon dioxide a year, making the sea one of the Earth's key defenses against global warming. Oceans have a great potential for heat storage, the top two or three meters hold as much heat as the entire atmosphere. This warmth is continuously redistributed by surface and convection currents. Without the ocean ...