Marine Ecosystem Builder
Simulation
We need your help: a devastating cyclone has completely destroyed a once-beautiful marine ecosystem. Your task is to rebuild the ecosystem so that the sharks can move back in.
Instructions
Start by dragging a rock onto the ocean floor.
Continue building your ecosystem by dragging more rocks and organisms into the ocean.
Hover over an organism to learn what it eats.
Continue until you can add the shark to the ecosystem.
Discussion questions:
If overfishing resulted in depleting the parrotfish population what would happen to other organisms in the ecosystem?
If all of the coral was destroyed as a result of bleaching what would happen to the other organisms in the ecosystem?
Details
NGSS
- PE | MS-LS2-1: Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the eff ects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem.
Learning Objectives
Understand what conditions are required to support tertiary consumers in an ecosystem.
Concepts
Ecosystem
Food chain
Food web
Producers
Consumers
Predators
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