Marine Science Video Series (*In-Class Only* Assignments)
The Marine Science Video Series is a series of videos shared in class to help students tie together concepts taught during each model's lessons. These assignments are only available for students to complete in class for an extra grade. If they are not completed in class, during class time the assignment is excused.
Blue Planet: Open Ocean
Episode Summary: Seas furthest from land are sometimes referred to as "marine deserts." Such waters contain some of the swiftest and most powerful of ocean hunters. This episode explores how marine organisms find food in such a wide and food-scarce place.
Questions:
1.What is the basis of energy in the open ocean?
2.How does floating material such as human trash or seaweed affect the ecosystem?
3.What are seamounts? Why do they contain so much more life than the rest of the open ocean?
4.Explain why the open ocean is often called a “marine desert”.
5.Why is migration so important to open-ocean animals?
6.What are some of the abiotic factors that influence food availability in the open ocean?
7.Why is it so vitally important that animals like the manta ray conserve energy?
Questions:
1.What is the basis of energy in the open ocean?
2.How does floating material such as human trash or seaweed affect the ecosystem?
3.What are seamounts? Why do they contain so much more life than the rest of the open ocean?
4.Explain why the open ocean is often called a “marine desert”.
5.Why is migration so important to open-ocean animals?
6.What are some of the abiotic factors that influence food availability in the open ocean?
7.Why is it so vitally important that animals like the manta ray conserve energy?