Jaimie's+Ocean+Biome+Page

Ocean Biomes: An ocean is a large mass of cold salt water that surrounds islands and beaches. There are many living plants such as; weeds, coral, anemones, reef, ect. There are also many animals that live in the ocean such as; sharks, fish, sea snakes, dolphins, sting rays, crabs, sea anemones, etc. There are a few different habitats in the ocean such as, coral reefs, sand bars, underwater caves, boat wrecks, etc. Lots of different marine life live in coral reefs like, fish, reef sharks, sea anemones, eels, sea snakes, sting rays, sea horses, seals, sea turtles, prawns, shrimps and crabs. Most of these animals rely on the flow of water to bring them food but some other types animals use the reef or even other fish to get their own food.

> > > **Dolphins:** > **A dolphin's habitat:** is a place where they can hunt, live, and socialize. Most dolphins habitat is between warm coastal waters and the deep ocean. Some dolphins live in freshwater rivers. Different types of dolphin will eat different things, here are some examples: > **Bottlenose Dolphins Eat**: Herring, Mullet, Capelin, Catfish, Eel, and Shrimp. > **What eats a Dolphin?** Killer whales, Sharks, and Humans > > > > **Sharks: > A Sharks Habitat:** is a place where they can hunt, live, and socialize. Most Sharks live in deep waters and hunt in shallow waters early in the morning and late at night. > **Sharks eat:** Dolphins, fish, turtles, sting rays, crabs, birds, eels, shrimp and many other animals. > **What eats a Shark?** Humans. > > > **Fish: > A fishes Habitat:** different types of fish live in different places eg. a clown fish lives in a sea anemone, or a deep water angler fish lives in very deep dark waters. > **Fish eat:** other fish, coral, plankton > **What eats a fish?** Sharks, Dolphins, Coral, Sting rays, etc. > > > **Jellyfish: > A Jellyfish's habitat:** a Jellyfish's habitat is a place where they can hunt, eat, live and socialize.
 * Animals that live in the ocean:**
 * Crabs
 * Fish
 * Sea turtles
 * Barracudas
 * Sharks [[image:http://naturescrusaders.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/gex_green-sea-turtle.jpg width="141" height="102"]] [[image:http://www.divester.com/media/2006/06/diver_and_jellyfish.jpg width="180" height="147"]] [[image:http://tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:7Z7vXD6UadlUjM:http://www.planetinverts.com/store/images/Pregnant-Blue-Pearl-Shrimp.jpg width="106" height="80" caption="See full size image" link="http://www.planetinverts.com/store/images/Pregnant-Blue-Pearl-Shrimp.jpg"]]
 * Dolphins
 * Whales
 * Seals
 * Shrimp
 * Prawn
 * Eels
 * Octopus
 * Jellyfish
 * Squid
 * Starfish
 * Sea Cucumber
 * Sea anemone
 * Flora and sea Plants that live in the ocean:**
 * Coral reef
 * Sea Anemone
 * Seaweed
 * Microbes that live in the ocean:**
 * Plankton
 * Moss
 * sea anemones
 * Jellyfish Eat:** fish, plankton, and other small animals.
 * What eats a Jellyfish?** Crabs, Sunfish, and loggerhead turtles.



Ecology:** Is the realationship between organisms and their environment. **By Jaimie ford of 7v
 * Key word Definitions:
 * Ecosystem:** an ecosystem is made up of animals, plants, and bacteria.
 * Environment:** an environment is a place which many different animals live, hunt and feed in, such as wetlands, grasslands, rainforests, ocean, etc.
 * Abiotic factors:** is something that is non-living.
 * Biotic factors:** is something that is living.
 * Habitat:** a habitat is something that is inhabited by an amimal for a home.
 * Predator:** a predator is an animal that is dangourous to an animal that can't kill it, eg a lion is the predator and the zebra is the prey.
 * Prey:** a prey is the animal that gets attached by the predator
 * Herbivore:** a herbivore only eats vegetables/plants
 * Carnivore:** a carnivore only eats meat
 * Omnivore:** a omnivore eats both meant and vegetable/plants
 * Consumer:** a consumer eats the producer, a second order consumer eats the first order consumer, etc.
 * Symbiosis:** two different organisms living together
 * Food-chain:** a food-chain shows the realationship between different species within an ecosystem.
 * Photosynthesis:** The process that a plant/tree uses to create energy.
 * Population:** All the organisms that form a specific group or occur in a specific habitat.
 * Endangered:** A species that has very few animals left.
 * Extinct:** A species that had none of the animals left.
 * Eco-tourism:** is a type of tourism that tries to help exotic and threatened ecosystems.

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