Starting with the food chain in Chesapeake bay, the plants and algae play the basis role in food chain. They make their own food by sunlight. These plants and algae are bay grass and free floating algae. The plants and algae not only feeds all other organisms in the water but also gives homes and shelter for other organisms. Frogs lay their eggs on the bay grass, giving the tadpoles a home. Fish use the grass for shelter, to hide and protect themselves. Next in the food chain are copepods, which are very small organisms in the animal community, which are mostly referred to as zooplankton. These zooplankton consume the algae and bay grass. The next link in the food chain are anchovies. Anchovies consume the zooplankton. The anchovies are then eaten by tertiary consumers, which are the bigger fish. The last link in the food chain are humans. We then eat the bigger fish (Food Web). Now, if the algae and bay grass population decreases, then all of the other organisms population in the …show more content…
Pollutants from factories, cars, boats, and litter are all the things humans use to pollute the bay. The bay contains a high amount of phosphorus and nitrogen. Phosphorus and nitrogen are needed for organisms and plants to be able to survive. However, an excess amount of phosphorus and nitrogen degrade the quality of Chesapeake bays water. Phosphorus and nitrogen feed algae blooms that block sunlight to the underwater bay grass and leaving a low supply of oxygen in the water. All organisms need oxygen to survive and when their is not enough oxygen, it leaves plants and animals to die. The area of water where there is a low count of oxygen are often called a dead zones. Also, an increase of the pH level in the water can be created because of algae blooms. The toxic killing algae can make humans sick. For the aquatic animals, these toxins attack mainly the organisms liver and nervous system (Nitrogen and
The Megaladon and his family live in the Indian Ocean near the coral reef. The Megaladon’s name is Junior and the children are Max and Matthew. Another shark came out of nowhere and ate his children when the Megaladon went to find food. The Megaladon came ack to find all the sharks dead.
One issue found is the creation of smelly phytoplankton that makes murky unclear waters along with aquatic impurities. Moreover, the reduction of growth due to poor light conditions and dying plants make it difficult for predatory fish to hunt leading to overpopulation. (Chislock, 2013) Eutrophication can be found in many of our water resources such as ponds, estuaries, and bays. One region with high areas with eutrophication is in a lake shared by Kisumu, Kenya and Kampala, Uganda.
Steeped in history and with access to both the Atlantic Ocean and Cape Cod Bay, Orleans began attracting tourists and summer residents during the last half of the 19th century. Whether they are full-time residents or business owners, the people in Orleans know that they can trust Dirtworks to provide them with quality work whenever asphalt paving, asphalt repairs, driveway paving, reclamation, milling, parking lot striping, asphalt sealcoating, snow removal or site work is needed. (-- removed HTML --) The History of Orleans (-- removed HTML --) The first English settlers were Pilgrims who relocated to the area in 1693 from the Plymouth Colony due to their dissatisfaction with the small grants of land and poor soil in Plymouth.
The marine life that was once present in the Bay a few decades ago have now decreased tremendously in size because of overfishing and polluted waters. The water of the Bay area now has gathered large amounts of pollution, debris, disease, and overfishing, which threatened the marine life. Chesapeake Bay is slowly decreasing in cleanliness and ocean life, which are essential to the Bay. What is this family doing to prevent the
This watershed is significantly smaller but borders many pasture and croplands, which are more than often the most unfavorable point source pollution to water bodies. The waters within this watershed were also from the hydrography dataset. The rivers and streams in both the New River watershed and the Chesapeake Bay watershed are represented as hydrolines. The Chesapeake Bay polygon was derived from the Department of Environmental
Firstly, human activities pose a significant threat to the Chesapeake Bay's health. Agriculture is the main contributor to the pollution in the Bay. Excessive nutrients from fertilizers and animal waste cause harmful algal blooms that create 'dead zones,' low-oxygen areas where marine life cannot thrive. Overfishing and destructive fishing practices further endanger the Bay's ecosystem, destabilizing food webs and threatening the survival of species. Urbanization and population growth also play a part in damaging the Bay.
The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States located between Maryland and Virginia lying inland from the Atlantic Ocean. It has more than 150 major rivers and streams covering parts of six states New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland Virginia and West Virginia. Nearly 17 million people live in the Chesapeake Bay watershed and affect the waters pollution. The Bay is very important to the economy of Maryland and Virginia providing economic resources, including crabs, oysters and rockfish, as well as recreational activities in and around the water. Due to the increase in the amount of pollution in the water, the wildlife and the recreational activities in the bay have slowly went down.
the major source of food for the horseshoe crab is bivalves
To those residing on the eastern coast near Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania, the problem of the Chesapeake Bay is obvious. The bay lacks water clarity, has difficulties sustaining aquatic life, and faces population threatening issues like dead zones and algae blooms. There are a myriad of ways in which the bay is polluted, however the most direct link to the bay’s poor water clarity is the overflowing amounts of nutrient and sediment pollution. Bay clarity is crucial, not only for a pretty appearance, but also for the health of the bay grasses and fish living in the bay.
LOCATION OF CAMP Emerald bay is on the Northwest side of Santa Catalina. Emerald Bay is 24 miles away from Los Angels. Emerald Bay is a boy scout camp that has visitors every week. We are known for having the most abalone in southern cali and the amazing snorkeling. The climate here is mostly sunny, it gets from the 60s to the 80s.
Their role in the ecosystem is as plant eaters, as they feast on over 60 species of water vegetation in the waters that they live in. Manatees eat local vegetation in huge quantities and excrete the digested plants to fertilize surrounding environments. Manatees keep the vegetation growth under control and provide the fertilizer to enable water vegetation to thrive. Eating vegetation helps keep waterways clear, and humans do not have to be paid to do this job. Some estimates speculate that this role alone saves the state of Florida half a million dollars a year.
It may worth mentioning that weedy seadragons are easily injured during handling. Feeding habits and predation: Seadragons feed mainly on tiny crustaceans such as mysids and sea lice. Their snouts are equipped with special muscles which enable widening the snout and hence capturing different sizes of food and passing it into their toothless
Water Pollution is a huge environmental problem that has serious effects on marine habitats, animals, and water quality. BP1: The world's marine habitat has been getting worse because of how bad the pollution has gotten. “ Over 80% of marine pollution comes from land based activities “ (source 5 ). This quote explains how most of the water pollution is caused by human activity. “ Plastic litter does not degrade, can be expected to last in the oceans for hundreds of years “ ( source 6 ).
Most are omnivores, which mean they eat almost everything. This includes plants, fungi, worms, beetles, slugs, caterpillars, earwigs,
Many fish can live on minimal nutrition with old or stale flake foods, but this poor nutrition is a chronic stress. A variety of well-preserved dry foods as well as freeze-dried, fresh, and frozen foods specifically designed for individual species are necessary to prevent chronic nutritional stress. The size, metabolic rate, temperature of the fish’s environment is extremely important to the amount of food a fish eats . Smaller fishes generally have a higher metabolic rate than large fishes so that means the small fishes generally eat proportionately more.