Activity 3 : Give and Take
What to Use: bowl or jar, algae or seaweeds, small salt water fish and shrimps, pebbles, corals.
What to do:
1.) Wash the pebbles and place them in a clean jar or bowl which will serve as an aquarium.
2.) Fill the jar or fishbowl with water.
3.) Add a few seaweeds, shrimps, and small fish.
4.) Place the jar in a well-ventilated area but not direct to the sun.
5.) Examine the things in your jar every day for five (5) days and record your observations.
Guide Questions:
1.) Your aquarium represents an ecosystem. What are the non-living components in your aquarium?_________________________________________________.
2.) What are the living things in it?_________________________________________________.
3.) How do living and non-living components interact in the aquarium ecosystem?_______________________________________________________.
4.) In your aquarium, what serves as the home of the small fish?________________________________________________________________.
5.) In the sea or ocean, what do you think will happen if the corals consumed their life span, and they were accumulated for a long period of time?
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Answers & Comments
Answer:
1. Aquarium is a man made ecosystem (artificial). if an ecosystem possess all physical and bioiogicai component, then it is said to be complete. Since aquarium has biotic (plants and fishes) and abiotic component (air. water) required for survival of fishes. so it is an complete ecosystem.
2. Like other living creatures, fish must meet certain basic needs for survival. Water, food and shelter are among the most important requirements: Water: Fish not only live in water, but they get oxygen from water. They breathe by taking water into their mouths and forcing it out through gill passages.
3.These Living things entract with the non living things around them such as sunlight, temperature, water and soil. The living things in an ecosystem are interdependent.
4. The things that serves as the home of the small fishes are : STONES,SEAWEEDS, CLEAN WATER, SAND and lastly... CORAL REEFS.
5.Coral reefs cover less than 1% of the ocean floor. ... Without reefs, billions of sea life species would suffer, millions of people would lose their most significant food source, and economies would take a major hit.
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