Q: Seasonality. How have the local organisms and ecosystem changed with regard to season as we move from Summer to Autumn? Think about specific examples such as plant leaves…but what does this mean is happening in the plant? What animal behaviour do you notice are different and why? Does the local marine environment experience seasonality? Is seasonality the same everywhere in the world?
A: Depending on the season, the ocean always changes. With winds or even with external temperature. It expands when the weather is warm, and contracts when it’s cold, currents move with dominant wind direction. Oceans do have their seasons, shifted of about two months with respect to their atmospheric corespondent, time for the water to warm up or cool down. Water expands and contracts due to those warming and cooling can make sea surface heights vary of about 10 cementers between the coldest month.
If you are interested in learning more about seasonality and how it effects our ocean water click the link provided below
http://marinebio.org/oceans/temperature.asp
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