Ocean acidification is having direct and indirect impacts on global food webs. Which statement is true? Crustaceans with calcite Lowering the pH level will
The prey-predator dynamic shells are more vulnerable to affect how corals build
between crabs and clams ocean acidification than skeletons, reproduce, and
has been disrupted as crabs those with aragonite shells obtain food, as they are
become weaker and clams since acidic ocean waters are adapted to specific pH levels
become stronger.
supersaturated with as aragonite levels become
aragonite
more unsaturated.
Warm water absorbs CO2
more rapidly than cold water
does, meaning that tropical
food webs are subject to
greater levels of
acidification