The Prolific Afterlife of Whales
A: List the major ideas, concepts or key points- point by point
• A single dead whale can nourish a specialized ecosystem that lasts for decades.
• Some signs suggest that whale-fall ecosystems have exchanges with other deep-seafloor communities, such as hydro- thermal vents.
• Species similar to those at whale falls may have depended on dead marine reptiles for hundreds of millions of years.
• Whale carcasses and have described more than 400 species that are living in and around them.
• Clams and mussels belonged to groups known to harbor chemosynthetic bacteria.
• Mollusks, the mussels from sunken wood and hydrothermal vent.
• Hydrocarbons leak onto the seafloor.
• 2,700 kilograms of steel ballast to counteract the buoyancy of decomposition gases.
• There are there stages: scavenger, opportunist, sulfophilic stage.
• ZOMBIE WORMS, also known as Osedax grow “roots” in dead whale bones, which they slowly consume. The worms seem to live exclusively at whale falls.
• There may be 690,000 skeletons of the nine largest whale species rotting in the world’s oceans at any one time.
B: Summarize the AUTHOR’s main point or idea- at LEAST 1-2 paragraphs
Whales, they decompose without affecting the ecosystem. They help it in their own way after death. With three stages. Each one with their unique way of work. scavenger, opportunist, sulfophilic stage. The first one carcass arrives on the seafloor, sharks take large bites altogether consume 40 to 60 kl. The second stage, high-density, though low-diversity, communities of animals colonize the sediments surrounding the whale carcasses and the newly exposed bones. The third one, break down lipids microorganisms use dissolved sulfate as their source of oxygen and release hydrogen sulfide as waste. The death of the whales are not really being searched, but we know that there can be life after theirs. They help other organism to live, providing them food. So many creates depend on them, in both dead or alive.
C: Write a reaction paragraph to the article stating your own thoughts on the topic,
using specific citations from the article to support your views
The ocean is a big place, this article is just another example that proves it. It’s amazing to know how many things are in the ocean, how many things that aren’t still discovered. It’s was long ago, the first time it was discovered that a whale could host specialized animal communities. There’s also the three phase of the whale after dead. Three ecological stages. I was amazed to discovered how many things are still out there for us to discover. I wonder how long would it takes us to be able to find an answer to everything. It just fills my head with curiosity. It’s amazing and stunning how many years have passed, how long humans have been here on the planet are they still have a lot to find, to know.
What? Many fossil of whales have been discovered. Yet there’s not really an exact number of how many they can be and is strange to find one.
Says who? Crispin T. S. Little is a senior lecturer in paleontology at the University of Leeds in England.
What if? The whales were smaller. Then it could made the hunting, search, for then more difficult of find. It would be nearly impossible.
What does it remains you of? Of fossils that are in the museums. Tons of fossils that exits but they don’t know exactly where they are from.
• A single dead whale can nourish a specialized ecosystem that lasts for decades.
• Some signs suggest that whale-fall ecosystems have exchanges with other deep-seafloor communities, such as hydro- thermal vents.
• Species similar to those at whale falls may have depended on dead marine reptiles for hundreds of millions of years.
• Whale carcasses and have described more than 400 species that are living in and around them.
• Clams and mussels belonged to groups known to harbor chemosynthetic bacteria.
• Mollusks, the mussels from sunken wood and hydrothermal vent.
• Hydrocarbons leak onto the seafloor.
• 2,700 kilograms of steel ballast to counteract the buoyancy of decomposition gases.
• There are there stages: scavenger, opportunist, sulfophilic stage.
• ZOMBIE WORMS, also known as Osedax grow “roots” in dead whale bones, which they slowly consume. The worms seem to live exclusively at whale falls.
• There may be 690,000 skeletons of the nine largest whale species rotting in the world’s oceans at any one time.
B: Summarize the AUTHOR’s main point or idea- at LEAST 1-2 paragraphs
Whales, they decompose without affecting the ecosystem. They help it in their own way after death. With three stages. Each one with their unique way of work. scavenger, opportunist, sulfophilic stage. The first one carcass arrives on the seafloor, sharks take large bites altogether consume 40 to 60 kl. The second stage, high-density, though low-diversity, communities of animals colonize the sediments surrounding the whale carcasses and the newly exposed bones. The third one, break down lipids microorganisms use dissolved sulfate as their source of oxygen and release hydrogen sulfide as waste. The death of the whales are not really being searched, but we know that there can be life after theirs. They help other organism to live, providing them food. So many creates depend on them, in both dead or alive.
C: Write a reaction paragraph to the article stating your own thoughts on the topic,
using specific citations from the article to support your views
The ocean is a big place, this article is just another example that proves it. It’s amazing to know how many things are in the ocean, how many things that aren’t still discovered. It’s was long ago, the first time it was discovered that a whale could host specialized animal communities. There’s also the three phase of the whale after dead. Three ecological stages. I was amazed to discovered how many things are still out there for us to discover. I wonder how long would it takes us to be able to find an answer to everything. It just fills my head with curiosity. It’s amazing and stunning how many years have passed, how long humans have been here on the planet are they still have a lot to find, to know.
What? Many fossil of whales have been discovered. Yet there’s not really an exact number of how many they can be and is strange to find one.
Says who? Crispin T. S. Little is a senior lecturer in paleontology at the University of Leeds in England.
What if? The whales were smaller. Then it could made the hunting, search, for then more difficult of find. It would be nearly impossible.
What does it remains you of? Of fossils that are in the museums. Tons of fossils that exits but they don’t know exactly where they are from.