Marine Ecology

Name this organism

• periwinkle

• moon snail

• whelk

• barnacle

What are barnacles doing when they put out they extend their little "legs"

• sensing their surroundings for danger

• reproducing

• searching for a mate to capture

• feeding

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-4

This is a group of marine organisms with segmented bodies like lobsters and shrimp

• crustaceans

• molluscs

• anthropods

• segmentations

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Name these organisms

• krill

• diatoms

• dinoflaggelates

• phytoplankton

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Meat eater

• omnivore

• herbivore

• steakivore

• carnivore

• c

small planktonic shrimp-like organism that is a main food source for baleen whales

• phytoplankton

• dinoflaggelate

• copepod

• krill

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

plant eater

• herbivore

• omnivore

• carnivore

• cabbagivore

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

plankton that is made of plants or plant-like organisms (they float near the surface of the ocean so that they can use sunlight to make their own food)

• krill

• zooplankton

• phytoplankton

• molluscs

• z

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Stage of life before an organism turns into it's adult form (often microscopic)

• lava

• larva

• lara

• lamba

Tiny ocean crustaceans that range from 2mm to 1 cm that are a type of zooplankton (smaller than krill) - usually the size of a grain of rice. Dinoflagellates are type of this

• krill

• molluscs

• diatoms

• copepods