Aquatic Food Chain - L5.6

Aquatic Food Chain, from Aquatic Science STEM curriculum Lesson 5 (Aquatic Communities) that includes topics: What are some of the basic survival needs of all living things? What is a population? What is a community? What is habitat? Why is it important? Why must organisms compete for resources? What is carrying capacity? What is a niche? Why is it important? What are invasive species? Why are they a problem? What is the source of energy for aquatic communities? How does energy circulate among organisms in an aquatic community? What is a food chain? What is a food web? What is an energy pyramid? What is a trophic level? How do predator and prey species keep species populations in balance in aquatic communities? What is natural selection? In what ways might food webs, food chains, and predator-prey relationships be different in a pond, an estuary, and the Gulf of Mexico? What happens when one piece is altered or removed? .
Dr. Rudolph “Rudy” Rosen is a professor in the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University. His bio is here: texasaquaticsci...
Aquatic Science Lessons with Dr. Rudy Rosen is an on-line video curriculum arranged into 13 lessons in KZbin Playlists. Each lesson covers a major subject area and is broken down into short sub-topic video presentations. These short videos covering important aquatic science topics can be used in teaching instruction or for self-education. A comprehensive teaching guide and enhancements can be downloaded FREE here: www.tpwd.state....
The teaching textbook is published by the Texas A&M University Press and can be obtained here: www.tamupress.c... or at Amazon here www.amazon.com/...
The instructional website is here: texasaquaticsci...
Aquatic Science is a cooperative education project sponsored by The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University, Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Texas Parks and Wildlife, and the National Science Foundation sponsored Research Coordination Network for Climate, Energy, Environment and Engagement in Semiarid Regions (RCN-CE3SAR). Some materials were adapted from or provided by the Missouri Department of Conservation.