Team members
Names / Roles:
- cao ze yi (Leader)
- wang jun xian (Chief Editor)
- cheong chen yang (Researcher)
- bryan ho (Researcher)
Overview
In this section, include a brief description of the allocated ecosystem. You should include the following information:
- Location of the ecosystem:Ocean
- Description of ecosystem: In the context of Earth, it also refers to major divisions of the planet's World Ocean, such as the Atlantic Ocean. The word "sea" is often used interchangeably with "ocean", but a sea is a body of saline water in a more inland location rather than a location in which it encompasses the land around it.
- Biodiversity of ecosystem (richness of life in ecosystem):
- Radiata
- Fish
- Cetacea such as whales, dolphins and porpoises,
- Cephalopods such as octopus and squid
- Crustaceans such as lobsters, clams, shrimp and krill
- Marine worms
- Plankton
- Echinoderms such as brittle stars, starfish, sea cucumbers and sand dollars.
Physical Factors
Search the Internet for information on the following physical factors in the allocated ecosystem.
- Light (availability of sunlight in the ecosystem)
- Temperature (temperature of the ecosystem)
- Water (water quality in the ecosystem)
- Air (quality of air in the ecosystem)
Classification of Living Organisms
Classify at least eight of the living organisms found in the allocated ecosystem into the categories below:
- Producers: Seaweed,Seaplant
- Primary Consumers: razor clam
- Secondary Consumers: horseshoe crab, diamondback terrapin
- Tertiary Consumers: loggerhead turtle
- Decomposers: marine worms, bacteria and Marine Seaweed
For each of the living organism, find a picture and write a short description on the organism. You may wish to include feeding habits, region in the ecosystem where it is normally found etc.
Food Web
Create a food web using at least eight of the living organisms listed above. You may wish to use Microsoft PowerPoint to create your food web. Save your food web as a picture. Finally copy and paste your picture in this section of your wiki.
Interrelationship in Ecosystem
Choose and write about one example from the following relationships in the ecosystem:
- Predator-prey relationship: a conger eel eats a wrasse,The conger eel is a top predator and the wrasse is a smaller fish that is eaten, the prey. The sea is a complex ecosystem. Things are eating other things all the time. Usually the food chain goes from small algae like plankton to a small fish like a herring, a mollusc or an arthropod then onto bigger fish. Some big fish get eaten by even bigger ones like sharks.
- Parasitism: whales and intestinal worms,Other parasites include isopods, which are ectoparasites (they live on the outside of their host).
- Mutualism:pilot fish and sharks,pilot fish cleans sharks of parasites. so sharks gets cleaned and pilot fish gets free meal.
Useful Links
Plagiarism is a strongly discouraged.
Include the links of all websites you obtained information from to complete your ecology wiki.
For example:
Wild World @ nationalgeographic.com ( http://www.nationalgeographic.com/wildworld/terrestrial.html )
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