1. Visit this website: (or search for Pearson ocean food web, it should be first on the list) 2. Read the passage at the top of the interactive before you begin. 3. Navigate around the food web in order to answer the following questions: From where does the algae plankton get its energy to make its food? Are algae plankton considered producers or consumers? What do silversides eat as their food source? List 3 organisms which eat the silversides. What would happen to the population of Arctic cod if the population of silversides greatly increased? What does the Beluga whale depend on as its food sources? Which 3 organisms depend ONLY on 1 primary source of food? What happens to the population of these 3 organisms if their source of food is wiped out? Station #4: Our Living Resource Infographic Use the infographic at: to answer the following questions 1. According to the infographic, why are oceans important? 2. Our oceans are under severe stress from what? 3. How many pieces of plastic are estimated to be afloat on every square mile of ocean? 4. Currently, what is a major source of ocean pollution? How much more pollution is occurring compared to 1960? 5. What are Zones”? How many exist? “Dead
1. Visit this website: (or search for Pearson ocean food web, it should be first on the list) 2. Read the passage at the top of the interactive before you begin. 3. Navigate around the food web in order to answer the following questions: From where does the algae plankton get its energy to make its food? Are algae plankton considered producers or consumers? What do silversides eat as their food source? List 3 organisms which eat the silversides. What would happen to the population of Arctic cod if the population of silversides greatly increased? What does the Beluga whale depend on as its food sources? Which 3 organisms depend ONLY on 1 primary source of food? What happens to the population of these 3 organisms if their source of food is wiped out? Station #4: Our Living Resource Infographic Use the infographic at: to answer the following questions 1. According to the infographic, why are oceans important? 2. Our oceans are under severe stress from what? 3. How many pieces of plastic are estimated to be afloat on every square mile of ocean? 4. Currently, what is a major source of ocean pollution? How much more pollution is occurring compared to 1960? 5. What are “Dead Zones”? How many exist?