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What are the different ecosystems on
Phillip Island?
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- Rock Pools
- Rocky Shores
- Cliffed Coasts
- Ocean and Bay Beaches
- Sand Dunes
- Estuaries and Coastal Lagoons
- Mangroves
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What places can you recognise from
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- Smiths Beach - Kitty Miller Bay
- Sunderland Bay - Summerlands
- Cape Woolamai - Seal Rocks
- The Nobbies - Forrest Caves
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Define an ecosystem.
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A system in the environment where living and non-living thigs depend on each other to survive.
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What are the components of an ecosystem?
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Biotic and abiotic factors. These include the living (BIOTIC: plants, animals, plankton, bacteria) and the non-living (ABIOTIC: water, air, rocks, salinity, oxygen)
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What is a food web?
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A food web is the feeding relationships within an ecosystem.
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What is the difference between a food web and a food chain?
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A food chain only shows a set order in which one organism eats another in an ecosystem, a food web is a lot more complex and shows how more than one thing can eat or be eaten by another in an ecosystem.
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What are producers, consumers and decomposers?
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A producer makes food using the suns energy, they then feed the consumers (primary - herbivores, secondary - omnivores, tertiary - carnivores). Decomposers break down dead organisms.
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Name two producers and six consumers you may find in a rocky pool food web.
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Producers: phytoplankton, bull kelp
Consumers: cunjevoi, sea snails, crabs, seagulls, cone shell, blue ringed octopus.
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Draw a rocky pool food web.
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What is the role of sunlight in any food web?
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The main role of sunlight is to provide energy to producers. This energy is food to them, it helps them to survive which then helps other organisms in the food web to also survive.
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Draw a food chain and label the Prducer, 1st, 2nd and 3rd order Consumers and the Decomposer.
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What is the difference between Biotic and Abiotic factors?
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Biotic factors are living things and abiotic factors are non-living things.
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What are four examples of abiotic and biotic factors in a rock pool?
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Biotic: seaweed, crabs, plankton, bacteria
Abiotic: temperature, rocks, salinity, oxygen
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Where on the Island are Shearwaters and Penguins found?
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Penguins: Penguin Parade at Summerland beach
Shearwaters: Penguin Parade boardwalks, Cape Woolamai carpark and Forrest Caves viewing platform
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What are Shearwaters and Penguins biology? (size, breeding, food)
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Shearwaters: weight 550 grams; wingspan about one metre. Breeding season september to may; eat fish
Penguins: Breeding season: august; incubation- 30-35 daysp; lay 2 eggs; eat squid, krill, pilchards
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