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  • challenge question #2

    Hudson Falls Middle School (hfmiddle@global2000.net)
    Thu, 27 Feb 1997 13:40:56 -0500

    Tara, Heather, Joyce, Tom, and Melissa of Ms. Lobb's period 5 class from
    Hudson Falls Middle School, Hudson Falls, New York answer:
    Upwelling is the movement of deeper, cooler, and often nutrient-rich
    layers of ocean water to the surface.
    The nutrients come to the top of the water. The plankton and other
    fish go to the top of the water surface to eat the nutrients and while the
    fish are up there eating the whale comes from below, opens his mouth, and
    eats the fish. The humpback whale will not eat fish from the bottom of the
    water it is living in.