CONCEPT - MARINE FOOD WEB
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It's All Connected: Trophic Tag - COSEE Coastal Trends and University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
Summary
In this active game that illustrates the concepts of ecological balance, interdependence, and trophic energy transfer in marine food webs, students play the roles of organisms that are representative of the different aquatic trophic levels. The game can be played using various environmental conditions and manipulations of organism ratios to achieve a balanced marine ecosystem.
Size Selective Predation - COSEE Coastal Trends
Summary
Students explore the mechanisms of prey size and the method of how predators capture prey.