PPT-Hippos and River Ecosystems

Deep Water Access Shallow Water Limitation Hippo Grazing Habitat June 2012 July 2014 Hippos as Ecosystem Engineers Control plot open to herbivores Total Herbivore Exclosure Hippo Specific Exclosure. By Renee Swank. In this activity you will learn all about the types of ecosystem. You can read all of the material and watch a short video on ecosystems. After you have read the material and watched the video, you can take the short quiz to see how much you learned!!. Types of Saltwater Ecosystems. Ocean. http://app.discoveryeducation.com/player/view?assetGuid. =ef5f2a34-edd4-4a8b-8d55. -. 881e5402994f. . Estuary. http. ://app.discoveryeducation.com/search?Ntt=lake+. . Table of Contents. Section 3: . Aquatic Ecosystems. Section 1: . How Ecosystems Change. Section 2: . Biomes. Chapter: Ecosystems. . Table of Contents. Section 1: . How Ecosystems Change. Mosses from my back yard. By: Sierra, Logan, and TaHay. Hippo Intro. Hippos are huge mammals. Sometimes they live in water . A hippo is amphibious . The hippos have a big hippo called boss , that is in charge . If an animal like an alligator or croc comes it’ll try to kill it .. (also more . info). Hope you enjoy!!!. . Baby hippos are born in the water and swim straight away. . birth. growth. At the age of three, hippos stop feeding from their mums and start eating grass. But they stay close to their mums.. by Freddie Hayward. Hippo Fact File. Scientific name. : . Hippopotamus . amphibious. Speed. : . 30 km/h (On Land, Running. ). Weight. :.  . 1,500 kg (Adult, Male). Lifespan. : . 40 – 50 y. Height. their . head so they can see what happens on top of the water when they are under the water . . Hippos teeth are very . very. sharp . . so they can bite. their . prey. . . Hippos can make there own . CHAPTER. Too Much of a Good Thing?. Elephant populations in southern Africa declined sharply due to hunting but have made overwhelming comebacks within nature reserves and parks.. Some worry that elephant overpopulation is causing a decline in local biodiversity and damage to farms and infrastructure.. Chapter 3 (Miller and . Spoolman. , 2010). Core Case Study: Tropical Rain Forests Are Disappearing. Cover about 2% of the earth’s land surface. Contain about 50% of the world’s known plant and animal species. The . altiplano. is a high plateau in the Andean regions of two South American nations.. The . varzea. , or “flooded forest,” is found mainly along the Amazon River in this nation.. The . cerrado. Section 3: . Aquatic Ecosystems. K. What I Know. W. What I Want to Find Out. L. What I Learned. Essential Questions. What are the major abiotic factors that determine the aquatic ecosystems?. What are transitional aquatic ecosystems and why are they important?. The Fiji Pearl Development Pla. n. was introduced June 7. th. 2017 at World Oceans day by the Fiji Government as one of 16 Voluntary commitments towards the implementation of Sustainable Goal 14.. What is ecology?. It is the science that studies how . organisms. relate to each other and their . environment. .. Considers both . biotic. (living) and . abiotic. (nonliving) aspects.. Examples of abiotic factors: . Getting started. With this GEO resource you will be learning about the location and biodiversity of . coral reefs. , their value to us and the environment and threats affecting global reefs today. We will also investigate the response to such threats in term of management..