Sport-Specific Courses. NFHS Coach Education Program Course Menu: Core Courses - Provide coaches with content from all eight domains contained in the National Stan-dards for Sport Coaches (NASPE 2006). These two courses form the foundation from which all elective courses and sport-specific courses are developed.
For that reason, most plants, seaweeds and algae in the ocean are found near the ocean surface or close to the shore. The large algae kelp grows in the neritic zone (Figure 14.28). Kelp tends to grow in forests, and can reach over 50 meters long.
Most of the ocean's plant life consists of microscopic algae called phytoplankton that float at the surface and through photosynthesis produce about half of the oxygen that humans and all other terrestrial creatures breathe.Seaweed and kelp are big algae easily visible to the naked eye.early half of the ocean is more than 9,800 feet (3,000 meters) deep. The deepest reaches of the ocean are largely devoid of life, but biological hotspots appear around places like hydrothermal vents.