Chase McAndrew

Angel Morquecho

Shrimp’s World

In 1760 the industrial revolution started and CO2 started being pumped into the

atmosphere. The CO2 has affected everything: like raising temperatures, ocean

acidification, melting ice caps, rising ocean levels and lot more flooding.

In the beginning of our story the shrimps are living just fine but because of acidic

oceans their shells are being dissolved because they are made from calcium and the

acidic ocean dissolves calcium. In the end the one of the shrimps got killed by the acidic

ocean because they couldn't produce a calcium shell.

Ocean Acidification is bad for Shells and Reefs. Rising levels of atmospheric

carbon due to fossil fuel emissions have made seawater more acidic. Increasing

acidification could wreak havoc on marine organisms that build their shells and

skeletons from calcium carbonate. it's a significant and harmful consequence of ​excess

carbon dioxide in the atmosphere​ that we don't see or feel because its effects are

happening underwater. At least one-quarter of the carbon dioxide released by burning

coal, oil and gas doesn't stay in the air, but instead dissolves into the ocean. Since the

beginning of the industrial era, the ocean has absorbed some 525 billion tons of CO2

from the atmosphere, presently around 22 million tons per day.