8. FOOD WEB – WHAT EATS WHAT

USING THE PICTURES ON THE NEXT PAGE AND THE INFORMATION BELOW

Colour the pictures as accurately as you can,
     cut them out,
          arrange them on a poster,
                label them,
                     then draw lines from the eater to what it eats. 
Your finished poster will show part of a food web for the animals and plants of a rock platform. 
(Hint arrange the pictures in different ways before pasting to try to keep as many arrows as possible from crossing one another)

Noddiwink - Scrapes microscopic encrusting algae and lichen from the rocks.

Warrener - Grazes on larger seaweed.

Black Periwinkle - Scrapes microscopic encrusting algae from the rocks.

Mulberry Snail - Preys mainly on barnacles, also periwinkles, oysters & limpets

Surf Barnacle - Filters microscopic animals and plants from the plankton

Brown-striped Periwinkle - Scrapes microscopic encrusting algae from the rocks. 

Spengler’s Triton – Preys mainly on Cunjevoi

Limpet - Scrapes microscopic encrusting algae from the rocks.

Chiton – Grazes on seaweed and encrusting algae on the rocks.

Octopus – Eats crabs, snails and fish

Tube worms – Filter microscopic animals and plants from the plankton

Zebra Snail – Scrapes microscopic encrusting algae from the rocks.

Abalone - Grazes on algae and bits of drifting seaweed that it traps

Cartrut Shell – Preys mainly on barnacles and other snails

Blue Australwink - Scrapes microscopic encrusting algae and lichen from the rocks

Cunjevoi – Filters microscopic animals and plants from the plankton

Sea Urchin – Grazes on seaweed

Sea Star – Eats small seaweed and encrusting animals.

Crab – Eats snails and the remains of dead plants and animals

Oyster - Filters microscopic animals and plants from the plankton           (see next page)

 

 

 

 

 

Nature Coast Marine Group November 2008

 

 

 

Nature Coast Marine Group November 2008