Lesson 5: Aquatic Communities

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Lesson 5: Aquatic Communities

All videos in this chapter are linked below. You will have the option to download the HD version or stream a lower resolution version.

Videos

Lesson Five: Aquatic Communities

Lesson 5.0: Aquatic Communities Summary Overview

Lesson 5.1: Aquatic Communities Introduction

Lesson 5.2: Communities

Lesson 5.3: Niches

Lesson 5.4: Aquatic Species Competition

Lesson 5.5: Solar Power

Lesson 5.6: Food Chain

Lesson 5.7: Predators

Lesson 5.8: Aquatic Species Survival

Lesson 5.9: Invasive Species

Lesson 5.D: Definitions

Description

Aquatic habitats are communities in which complex interactions take place among populations and individual organisms as they compete for limited resources in an interdependent web of relationships.

Keywords

Aquatic Biodiversity, Aquatic community, aquatic ecosystems, Aquatic habitats, aquatic science, energy pyramid, Ewing Halsell, fish, Food Chain, food web, Harte Research Institute, invasive species, Meadows Center, Natural selection, nonindigenous species, Rudolph Rosen, Sport Fish Restoration Program, STEM, Texas Aquatic Science, water, Water Jobs, Working and Careers in Water and Aquatic Science

Disciplines

Water Resource Management

Learning Objectives

Aquatic Communities is the Aquatic Science STEM curriculum Lesson 5 that includes relevant science topics in 11 videos: What are some of the basic survival needs of all living things? What is a population? What is a community? What is habitat? Why is it important? Why must organisms compete for resources? What is carrying capacity? What is a niche? Why is it important? What are invasive species? Why are they a problem? What is the source of energy for aquatic communities? How does energy circulate among organisms in an aquatic community? What is a food chain? What is a food web? What is an energy pyramid? What is a trophic level? How do predator and prey species keep species populations in balance in aquatic communities? What is natural selection? In what ways might food webs, food chains, and predator-prey relationships be different in a pond, an estuary, and the Gulf of Mexico? What happens when one piece is altered or removed?

About This Project

Aquatic Science Lessons with Dr. Rudy Rosen is an on-line video curriculum arranged into 13 lessons. Each lesson covers a major subject area and is broken down into short sub-topic video presentations. These short videos covering important aquatic science topics can be used in teaching instruction or for self-education. A comprehensive teaching guide and enhancements can be downloaded FREE here.The teaching textbook is published by the Texas A&M University Press and can be obtained here.

Lesson 5: Aquatic Communities
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