Coastal Ocean Biomes

A collection of images of the world's coastal ocean biomes - where the land meets the sea.

Earth has six major biomes worldwide that are then divided into sections with the Coastal Ocean areas belonging to the Ocean biome. Ocean biomes are probably the most important of all the biomes as they have a great effect on the global climate and they contain several billion photosynthetic plankton which accounts for most of the photosynthesis occurring on Earth. Without this biome you would find there would be a lack of oxygen to support the population and animal life of the world.

The Coastal Ocean Biome has been threatened with overfishing and pollution and could eventually make oceans an ecological disaster. In recent years there have been much stricter regulations put in place to prevent further destruction of the Coastal Ocean biomes.

Two thirds of our planet is covered with water and as the sea levels rises with the tides the shores can sometimes be very wet or dry. Winds drive across the open ocean and smash against the coast with enormous force at which time they stir up waves that continuously crash into the land. Each stretch of land is different depending on the tides, water currents, winds, temperature, climate and the types of rock from which Mother Nature created the land.

Search the inter-tidal coast where many marine animals live that have come to adjust to the tides that can be calm and soothing one moment and full of roughness and brutality the next.

If everybody took a small step in protecting the Ocean biomes as well as the freshwater, desert, forest, grassland and tundra biomes, then we would all be making an effort in preserving the Earth's natural biomes and protecting our world.


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Starfish
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Vancouver Island Sunset
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Destination Kaikoura New Zealand
photo of Coastal Landforms Watering Cove Abel Tasman National Park
Coastal Landforms Watering Cove Abel Tasman National Park
photo of Coastal Erosion Abel Tasman NP New Zealand
Coastal Erosion Abel Tasman NP New Zealand
photo of Curio Bay Coastline South Island
Curio Bay Coastline South Island
photo of Coastal Image Taranaki
Coastal Image Taranaki
photo of Coastal Ocean Biomes
Coastal Ocean Biomes
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Italian Beaches
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Wave Power
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Kincheloe Point
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Ocean Scene Rainbow
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Beach Vacation Homes
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California Coast Photo
photo of Scalloped Hammerhead Shark
Scalloped Hammerhead Shark
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Clayquot Sound
photo of Broughton Archipelago
Broughton Archipelago
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Beach Photos
photo of Milford Sound Track
Milford Sound Track
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Ocean Sunset Pictures
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Pictures Of Geology
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Pancake Rocks
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Biome
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Rock Crab Pictures
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Coast Of California
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