Food Chain In The Ocean Video

Producers make their own food plankton algae.

Food chain in the ocean video. Marine biologist Stephen Palumbi shows how toxins at the bottom of the ocean food chain find their way into our bodies -- and tells a shocking story of toxic contamination in the fish market where consumers were being tricked into buying fish thats not only mislabeled but unsafe. National Marine Sanctuary Program. Each of these cups represents one part of a food chain.

Oceans cover a major part of our earth. Food chains connect to create food webs. The more steps in a chain means less food available at the top.

This a food web but can easily be shown as a food chain by choosing an organism from each trophic level Sources. Ocean Acidification is a short 2-minute video from North Carolina Aquarium that explains how marine organisms build shells from calcium carbonate and how ocean acidification impedes that process. The ocean is home to the largest animal the blue whale and some of the smallest forms of life such as single celled diatoms.

Stack food chain cups. Oh and sharp teeth dont hurt either. Some food chains are very simple involving only a few steps.

Then challenge kids to choose another ecosystem and create their own. Antarctic Ocean Food Web. And Canadian shores VIDEO August 12 2013.

Stack them to show how they all fit together. The ocean is a complicated place dense with life feeding other lifeSubscribe. An ocean food chain shows how energy is passed from one living thing to another in the ocean.