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Name___________________________________ Ecosystems Project- Save your Species! As an ecologist, you have explored much of the world. While on one of your expeditions, you stumbled across a species that you have never seen before! A Purpose: In order to protect this species, you must create a PowerPoint presentation that will convince other ecologists and the government that this species must be saved. Part 1 (10 points) Due Date__________________ My species is called: ____________________________________________________ Species Description: Write your name in the blank if you are responsible for that part of the project. __________Describe what your species look like: (5 points) Legs Size Arms Shape Eyes Color __________Hand draw and color your species using Microsoft Paint. (5 points) Part 2 (35 points) Due Date__________________ Ecosystem: Goal: Describe the ecosystem where your species live within the ocean. __________Describe abiotic and biotic features that can be found within the ecosystem. Biotic: animals, plants (living organisms) (3 points) Abiotic: temperature, climate, soil (non-living) (3 points) Describe how your species interacts with some of the biotic and abiotic features. For example: It eats worms, lives in a tree, and it breathes oxygen. (5 points) __________Make 1 colored drawing (10 points) of your species’ habitat/ecosystem (You may draw your species in the diagram along with other ocean animals. You may cut and paste pictures from the internet. Don’t forget to cite your sources/where you got them from.) and include the following: Draw and Label the ocean floor features in your habitat drawing IF they are found or seen in your drawing. Continental shelf Abyssal plain Hydrothermal Vents Continental Rise Seamounts Trenches Volcanoes Mid Ocean Ridge __________In what ocean light zone (photic, aphotic) does your species live? ( 5 points) Define what photic and aphotic means on a slide. Why does your species live in this ocean light zone? Label the light zone (photic, aphotic) where your species lives in your drawing. How much oxygen and salt is in the zone where your species lives? (6 points) Does anything happen to oxygen and salinity as you go deeper into the ocean? In what ocean marine life zone (intertidal, neritic, oceanic, benthic) does your species live? (3 points) Define the zone(s) where your species lives. Ex: What does intertidal mean? Why does your species live in this ocean marine life zone(s)? Label the ocean marine life zone(s) that your species lives in your drawing. Part 3 (20 points) Due Date__________________ Limiting Factors Goal: Describe the limiting factors that are causing your species to go extinct. A limiting factor is a problem that causes the population of the species to decrease. Why is this species going extinct? (1 points) Why should we save this species? (1 points) __________Density-Dependent limiting factors: (9 points) Competition: Competition can occur between members of different species. This type of competition can lead to evolutionary change. Over time, the species may evolve to occupy different places. What other species does your species compete with for resources (food, water, shelter, space)? Predation: Populations in nature are often controlled by predation. The regulation of a population by predation takes place within a predator-prey relationship, one of the bestknown mechanisms of population control. What are its predators? What eats your species? Parasitism: Parasites can limit the growth of a population. A parasite lives in or on another organism (the host) and consequently harms it. What species is a parasite and harms yours? __________Density-Independent limiting factors: (9 points) Unusual Weather or Natural Disasters: What do they do to the population size of your species? How does your species react to them? Diseases: What diseases harm it? Human Activities: Such as damming or pollution, etc. How do they affect the population size of your species? How does your species react to human activities? Part 4 (20 points) Due Date__________________ Food Web __________Draw a food web for your species using Microsoft Paint. (10 points) You may cut and paste pictures from the internet. Don’t forget to cite your sources/where you got them from. Label the producers, consumers and decomposers. (3 points) Label the primary, secondary, and tertiary consumers as well in the food web. (3 points) Make sure that your arrows show the direction of energy flow (3 points) __________Explain how energy is recycled in your food web. (1 points) Part 5 (15 points) Due Date__________________ Energy Transfer Draw an energy pyramid for your species (5 points) What happens to the energy as you go up the pyramid? Draw a number pyramid for your species (5 points) Draw a biomass pyramid for your species (5 points) Part 6 (15 points) Nutrients Due Date__________________ Goal: Explain how the following nutrients cycle through your ecosystem and how your organism contributes to that cycling: Nitrogen Cycle (5 points) Carbon Cycle (5 points) Water (5 points) Part 7 (10 points) Due Date__________________ Interactions Goal: Explain how your organism interacts with other organisms in your ecosystem Mutualism (5 points) Coexistence/Cooperative (5 points) Total Points Possible: 125 Total Points Earned:___________ Grade: ________