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Southwest Pacific Marine Biome

Southwest Pacific Marine Biome. By: Ashley Murphy and Deanna Kramer. Flat back Sea Turtle. Scientific Name: Chelonia mydas Location: Northern Australia Longitude: 115°E – 145°E Latitude : 10°S- 20°S Biome: Marine, Southwest Pacific (shallow area, Great barrier reef).

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Southwest Pacific Marine Biome

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  1. Southwest Pacific Marine Biome By: Ashley Murphy and Deanna Kramer

  2. Flat back Sea Turtle • Scientific Name: Cheloniamydas • Location: Northern Australia • Longitude: 115°E – 145°E • Latitude: 10°S- 20°S • Biome: Marine, Southwest Pacific (shallow area, Great barrier reef) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatback_sea_turtle

  3. Winged Sea Horse • Scientific Name: Hippocampus alatus • Location: Northern Australia • Longitude: 115°E – 145°E • Latitude: 10°S- 20°S • Biome: Marine, Southwest Pacific, (deep water 1080 m photic zone) http://www.whatsthatfish.com/fish/winged-seahorse/311

  4. Adaptations • Flat back Sea Turtle • Sea turtles are strong swimmers. The cruising speed for green sea turtles is about 0.9-5.8 mph. • Forelimbs are modified into long, paddle-like flippers for swimming. • Neck and limbs are nonrestrictive. The shell adaptations necessary for retractile limbs would impede rapid swimming. http://www.seaworld.org/animal-info/info-books/sea-turtle/adaptations.htm

  5. Adaptations • Winged Sea Horse • Seahorses also have the ability to change colors. They can change colors for multiple reasons, such as during their court dance with a mate or possibly to hide from a predator. With the seahorse's ability to camouflage, it makes hiding from a predator much easier. This adaption is a great survival tool. • Seahorses have bony plates which are located under their skin, much like a suit of amour. These plates are an adaption ,allowing protection for the seahorse against predators. • The long snout of a seahorse is an adaption used for foraging for food. The snout is similar to a straw and sucks up the seahorses food, such as zooplankton. Because of their snout is so long, only a small turn of the head is necessary to reach prey faster. With this ability seahorses can get more food. http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/2011/kovac_jenn/adaptation.htm

  6. Nutrient Cycle (Carbon) • The Atmospheric Carbon transfers through the process of photosynthesis to the Golden Algae and the Turtle Grass. After, it transfers into the consumers, which are the Flat back Sea Turtle and the Winged Sea Horse, and they eat the plants or other consumers. After the consumers, the nutrients goes into the decomposers, like bacteria. Carbon Dioxide then dissolves into the ocean and returns to the atmosphere through cell respiration. • The Water Cycle does not apply to our animals.

  7. Nutrient Cycle (Nitrogen) • Nitrogen from the air goes into the bacteria that makes NH3 ammonia from N2 then into bacteria, algae that makes nitrates. After, the producers, PediastrumBoryanum, and ThalassiaTestudinum make proteins and nucleotides. The nitrogen moves to the consumers that eat plants, which are CheloniaMydas and Hippocampus Alatus. The producers and consumers either die, or make wastes then that bacteria reforms back into Nitrogen.

  8. Food web

  9. Predator Prey • Nurse Shark Clownfish http://www.google.com/imgres?q=nurse+shark&um=1&hl=en&safe=active&sa=N&biw=1024&bih=673&tbm=isch&tbnid=8HkPOB4JZKuE4M:&imgrefurl=http:// http://www.google.com/imgres?q=clown+fish&hl=en&safe=active&biw=1024&bih=673&gbv=2&tbm=isch&tbnid=m5JiXkMrCb-yWM:&imgrefurl=http://

  10. Intra-specific Competition • Sea Turtles Turtle Grass http://www.google.com/imgres?q=turtles+eating+turtle+grass&hl=en&safe=active&gbv=2&biw=1024&bih=673&tbm=isch&tbnid=GPWMMbF8-9DfaM:&imgrefurl=http://

  11. Inter-specific Competition • Shrimp and Sea Coral Golden Algae http://www.google.com/imgres?q=shrimp&hl=en&safe=active&biw=1024&bih=673&gbv=2&tbm=isch&tbnid=1Uj5lo2jz6Zv2M:&

  12. Parasitism • Clown Fish Ichprotist http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1024&bih=673&q=ich&gbv=2&oq=ich&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&

  13. Mutualistic Symbiosis • Cleaner fish on the Nurse shark http://www.google.com/imgres?q=cleaner+fish+on+shark&hl=en&safe=active&gbv=2&biw=1024&bih=673&tbm=isch&tbnid=b6NseV823vCDHM:&imgrefurl=http://

  14. Commensalistic Symbiosis • Sea Horse Coral Reef http://www.google.com/imgres?q=seahorse+in+coral&hl=en&safe=active&biw=1024&bih=673&gbv=2&tbm=isch&tbnid=lOy_ev-i6MM99M:&imgrefurl=http://

  15. Econiches (flat back sea turtle) • Lives in shallow salt water • Lots of light • Medium temperature (54˚F) • Live in/near coral reef • Eats turtle grass and golden algae • Migrate to mate, lay eggs in sand, and find food • The ability of a sea turtle to migrate hundreds (and occasionally thousands) of miles from its feeding ground to its nesting beach is one of the most remarkable acts in the animal kingdom. http://www.conserveturtles.org/seaturtleinformation.php?page=behavior http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatback_sea_turtle

  16. Econiches (winged seahorse) • Lives in deep water (1080 m) • Cooler water (20 ˚C) • Medium light exposure • Lives in/near coral reef • Eats shrimp and golden algae http://www.whatsthatfish.com/fish/winged-seahorse/311

  17. Carbon cycle burning fossil fuels http://www.google.com/imgres?q=carbon+cycle+in+ocean&hl=en&safe=active&gbv=2&biw=1024&bih=673&tbm=isch&tbnid=73ZYyQxcB6S9RM:&imgrefurl=http://

  18. What is Global Warming? • Global warming is the rising average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans since the late 19th century and its projected continuation. • Climate change is caused by factors that include oceanic processes (such as oceanic circulation), variations in solar radiation received by Earth, plate tectonics and volcanic eruptions, and human-induced alterations of the natural world; these latter effects are currently causing global warming, and "climate change" is often used to describe human-specific impacts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming

  19. Graph of temperature of earth in the same time (evidence that altering Carbon cycle causes warming) http://www.google.com/imgres?q=%22coral+reef%22+temperature+tolerance&hl=en&safe=active&biw=1024&bih=673&tbm=isch&tbnid=LDreAY6euKTFAM:&imgrefurl=http://geology.uprm.edu/Morelock/rfcontrols.htm&docid

  20. Graph of co2 in the atmosphere over the last 200 years http://www.google.com/imgres?q=co2+in+the+ocean+atmosphere&hl=en&safe=active&gbv=2&biw=1024&bih=673&tbm=isch&tbnid=oUHocYKwfxi1mM:&imgrefurl=http://

  21. Increased CO2 in the atmosphere Because of greenhouse effect and causes global warming

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