Reef Food Web Project:
Step 1:
You be creating a food web on a sheet of paper of a Coral Reef Ecosystem using EACH organism in the list pictured below. Anything in parentheses ( ) is the food that the organism eats. Anything in brackets [ ] is the identity of the organism. The only organism left off the list that must be included in your food web is Coral and they eat zooplankton! Your food web should include the following:
You be creating a food web on a sheet of paper of a Coral Reef Ecosystem using EACH organism in the list pictured below. Anything in parentheses ( ) is the food that the organism eats. Anything in brackets [ ] is the identity of the organism. The only organism left off the list that must be included in your food web is Coral and they eat zooplankton! Your food web should include the following:
- Obtain a sheet of printer paper or open a fresh google doc.
- Write the name of each organism in the list of organisms found in the Coral Reef Ecosystem. My suggestion is to plants/autotrophs on the bottom! Cover the entire page and circle the name of each organism.
- Draw arrows to connect each organism to the organism(s) it eats. Make it readable! So if a plant is eaten by a fish, you would point the arrow from the plant to the fish. You may work with your team in determining where each organism is placed on the food web. My suggestion is that you're consistently discussing the content with your teams and holding up your drawings to the camera. Teams may work off the same google doc. If your group choices to do the poster individually then you can always hold up your posters to the camera or share your screen to help others.
- Once finished, take photo of completed work and upload in performance task.
Step 2: Analyze the completed reef food web and answer the questions below:
A) Speculate about what would happen if a high concentration of fertilizers from human activity got dumped into the ecosystem. Would corals survive? Why or why not?
B) List and describe the 3 major types of coral reef producers.
C) How do parrotfish contribute to sandy beaches? What type of consumer are parrotfish?
D) Why are heterotrophs so important to coral reefs?
E) Why is Coralline Algae an important part of a coral reef?
F) Explain why food webs with more species are more resilient than food webs with less species.
A) Speculate about what would happen if a high concentration of fertilizers from human activity got dumped into the ecosystem. Would corals survive? Why or why not?
B) List and describe the 3 major types of coral reef producers.
C) How do parrotfish contribute to sandy beaches? What type of consumer are parrotfish?
D) Why are heterotrophs so important to coral reefs?
E) Why is Coralline Algae an important part of a coral reef?
F) Explain why food webs with more species are more resilient than food webs with less species.