LibGuides: Herbert Hoover Middle School Media Center: Marine Aquatic Food Web Project

Your Assignment

You will be constructing marine food webs to demonstrate your knowledge of relationships between organisms in ecosystems. You may focus on one species and construct a food web with that species, or you may choose to focus on a specific ecosystem. You may choose from these ecosystems: ocean ecosystems, arctic or Antarctic, coral reefs of all types, shores, beaches, mouth of the Chesapeake – salty or marine environments of any kind.

You will create a bibliography in NoodleTools with a minimum of three different sources. You will share your bibliography with your teacher electronically.

Online Databases

Websites

Marine Ecosystems and Food Chain Websites

MBGNet-Information about marine ecosystems
Science Learning: Marine Habitats
Cool Antarctica: Whales and Food Webs
Fitting Algae into the Food Web-General info about marine food webs and activities.
National Geographic: Marine Food Chain-Explains the four steps of the marine food chain.
Science Learning: Marine Food Webs
Marine Bio: Biotic Structure-This article talks about marine food chains and food webs.
University of California Museum of Paleontology: The World's Biomes-Information about the world's biomes and food chains within them.

Marine Animal Websites

MarineBio Species Database - Use the search box to find information about many marine animals.
Seal Conservation Society: Seal Information – Information about many species of seals.
Alaska Fisheries Science Center – Click on the “Species” button on the navigation bar and find your animal under its category.
Center for Whale Research – Look here for information about Orca whales.
Whale Watch Dolphin Fleet of Provincetown, MA - Click here to read about whale behaviors. Click here to hear whale sounds.
International Whaling Commission – Information about whales.
Animal Diversity Web from the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology - This contains thousands of photos, descriptions, sound recordings, and other information about individual animal species.
Arctic Wildlife Center – Look for six sea mammals here.
Zip Code Zoo – Use the search box to search for your species.
Windows to the Universe: The Ocean Biome – Use the Related Links to find information to help you.