Food Web

1. Subtitle “Marine Food Web”.  Research the marine organism that you played in the food web activity: what eats it and who it eats. Fit the organism into a balanced marine ecosystem. What are the trophic relationships in your design? What would happen to the food web if one species were to become endangered or extinct? Which species would be affected? Which ecosystem would be affected?
1. Write the answers to the above questions as one paragraph.
2. Describe the class activity and record your 1/28 exit ticket.

1a. The food wed in an important part to all organisms. In the ocean every organism in the ocean is very important to one another. One animal eats another animal who eats another animal. Without cretin animals the food chain would slowly start to die. They all need each other for food.

1b. The class activity that we did was a fun activity.I enjoyed it, it really showed how much the food chain is connected and how every organism big and small are important in there own way. The activity showed us that with out some animals other animals would not be able to eat, therefor they would not be able to survive.

1. Subtitle “Phytoplankton”. The second activity you did was to learn about the neuston ecosystem and look at diatoms under the microscope.
   1. Explain why phytoplankton is so important to marine food webs. Identify the organisms that are in the neuston ecosystem, and how much of Earth’s surface this ecosystem covers.
   2. Write up your diatom lab results in a single paragraph. This includes

i.Hypotheses from page 3.

ii.Activity 1 results on page 5.

iii.Conclude and communicate on page 5.

1a. Plankton is important becuase they provide food for almost all the organisms that are living in the ocean. Plankton also take up about 71% of the oceans there are so many of them.

1b. Diatoms are very small organisms, they can only be seen under a microscope

1. Subtitle “Energy Flow”. Describe what happens to the amount of energy/biomass that is transferred from one trophic level to the next.

About 10% of net energy  is produced through the trophic levels. It reduces the energy transferred between the different trophic levels such  as  respiration, growth and reproduction. Death of organism also affect the impact on the energy flow. When animals die off other animals get impacted by them because they need each other to live.

        2.Subtitle “Human Impacts”. Answer and discuss the following:  What roles do humans play in marine food webs? How can human actions upset the balance of an ocean ecosystem?

Human impact effects the ocean in many ways. When we fish of dump things into the ocean it is killing the organisms in it, not all  but some. When we do things to destroy the ocean on purpose or not not matter what it will effect the ocean. When we impact the ocean we are impacting everything that's in it, the organisms that are in it suffer when we do things to put them in harms way.

Anaylasis questions for its all connected

Analysis of Results:

1.        Why do you think there are international laws for dumping waste/trash/chemicals in the ocean, rather than just local laws? Do these laws only need to extend to nearby neighboring countries? Explain. 

__They are international laws because dumping waste, trash, and chemicals into the ocean is not a safe thing for our environment. Some things cannot decompose. They just sit in the ocean and build up trash piles. Throwing these things into the ocean kills the wildlife that lives there and its not fair to them. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. What else can be done to protect the oceans from being the repository for waste?

We can protect this from happening if we really get into peoples minds and show people that throwing these toxic things into the ocean is killing the wildlife and all of the plants and animals. people do not want to be in an ocean filled with trash so why dont we just stop throwing it in there. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. You have been given a separate question to investigate.  Attach your piece for the display case to this assignment, or submit separately. Remember: colorful, near, accurate, source cited.

Loggerhead Island Project

This project was a fun one in my opinion. I thought at times that it was a bit challenging at times but it was cool to see how it was to make our own island. We had to protect the wild life that lived on the island while trying to build; a restaurant, golf course, club house, boat dock, research center, police/ fire department, 100 villas, 30 residential homes and more.

1. What special considerations did you have to make for the nesting sea turtle sites located on the barrier island? We knew that the sea turtles needed to be protected from any structures and buildings that were being built near it.

2. What special considerations had to be made when determining a good site for the proposed fishing pier? We knew that we couldn't put the pier near any of the the habitats because we didnt want to kill any of it.

3. What could be some of the potential problems that might arise from the proposed golf course? Propose some of the ways in which the impacts can be reduced. We made our golf course a little too big, it took over some of the land that was suppose to be for the turtles and the mangroves.

4. What are the economic benefits to the community of Loggerhead County if the development was done with the least amount of environmental impact? The economic benefits if the development was done with least amount of environmental impacts was that we would have more of an ecosystem and it would be a better place to live.

5. Describe three ways in which humans negatively impact coastal ecosystems such as the one you are working on with Loggerhead Barrier Island.Humans are building on wildlife all the time. We take out the nature to put in buildings and housing when it is not even needed. We are killing animals and taking their homes from them.

6. How can maintaining natural vegetation help us to reduce the damage caused by oceanic events such as hurricanes, tsunami and continued beach erosion? Natural vegetation helps to reduce the damage because it is all natural things. Our natural resources are the best things that we can live with and use.

7. After listening to the other groups make their presentations, were there any ideas they had you would have used if you had though about it before-hand? You should list at least three different ideas and indicate why their idea is actually better for the environment than yours. I think that some of the other groups had alot of good ideas. I think from listening to other groups we learned that we should have made our blue print alot more smaller than it was. We also could have protected our habitats more.