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DRAFT 5/4/23

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JOBS BY ECOSYSTEM

Kelp Forest

Lower Depths (spoilers!)

Arctic

Coral Reef

Bayou

Kelp Forest Jobs

Exploring a New Kelp Forest

Energy in the Forested Lagoon System

A Cliffside Oasis Visualization

Refuge Failure

Urchin Farm

Mussel Fest

Refuge Failure Simulation

Start a Refuge

Saving Cliffside Oasis

Predicting the Future of Cliffside Oasis

Mussel Fest Solution

Welcome to the Forested Lagoon

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Job: A Cliffside Oasis Visualization

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Questions: What is an “urchin barren”? How did the Cliffside Oasis become one? Use your understanding of the kelp forest ecosystem in your explanation.

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Job: Energy in the Forested Lagoon System

Questions: Describe the food web model you created for Site C. Where does the kelp get its energy from?

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Job: Exploring a New Kelp Forest

Questions: Why do you think each kelp forest has a different kind of kelp?

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Job: Mussel Fest

Questions: Identify abiotic and biotic factors in the kelp forest ecosystem. List at least 3 for each.

What did you determine was the factor stressing the mussels?

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Job: Mussel Fest Solution

Questions: How did being stressed affect the mussels? How did being stressed not affect the mussels?

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Job: Predicting the Future of Cliffside Oasis

Questions: What was the scientific reason to build a model of the Cliffside Oasis?

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Job: Refuge Failure

Questions: Why was the refuge a failure? Describe what went wrong.

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Job: Refuge Failure Simulation

Questions: The model predicted that the refuge would continue to fail. Based on your findings, what would you suggest that the scientists try next to create a kelp refuge?

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Job: Saving Cliffside Oasis

Questions: Why is it better to build a model about what might help restore the kelp forest? Why not just put different organisms into the ecosystem and see what works?

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Job: Start a Refuge

Questions: What was the purpose of measuring the stress ranges for the bull kelp and giant kelp?

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Job: Urchin Farm

Questions: As scientists, why is it important to take measurements and gather data?

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Job: Welcome to the Forested Lagoon

Questions: Describe the food web in the kelp forest: What eats what?

Identify each species as a producer or a consumer.

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Coral Reef Jobs

Turtle Stability

Lionfish Conspiracy

Fishy Business

Tang Check-Up

Fake Reef Fix

Stressed Coral

Ocean Plastics

So Much Algae

Casting Shade

Turtle Population

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Hunting Lions

Eat the Seaweed

Job: Casting Shade

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Questions: What abiotic factor is affecting the staghorn coral? How is the staghorn being affected?

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Job: Eat the Seaweed

Questions: Do you think that urchins are a good fit for the coral reef ecosystem given what they did to the kelp forests?

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Job: Fake Reef Fix

Questions: What was the purpose of the artificial reefs? What evidence did you find about whether they worked to fix the reef?

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Job: Fishy Business

Questions: When is fishing helpful for an ecosystem? When can fishing be harmful for an ecosystem?

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Job: Hunting Lions

Questions: Lionfish are an invasive species at this coral reef. What is the scientists’ concern about this?

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Job: Lionfish Conspiracy

Questions: How might the lionfish be affecting the coral reef, even though they don’t directly consume the coral?

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Job: Ocean Plastics

Questions: Why would the plastics affect the turtles? What do the turtles think the plastics are?

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Job: So Much Algae

Questions: What is causing the out-of-control growth of turf algae?

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Job: Stressed Coral

Questions: There are five kingdoms that organisms belong to: Plants, Animals, Bacteria, Protists, and Archaea. Based on what you know about coral from the job, what kingdom do you think coral should belong to? Use Claim, Evidence, Reasoning to support your ideas.

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Job: Tang Check-Up

Questions: What was stressing the tang?

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Job: Turtle Populations

Questions: How do you think scientists estimate ecosystems populations in real life?

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Job: Turtle Stability

Questions: Will an organism that eats a wide range of other organisms be better off or not as well off compared to an organism that only has one or two kinds of organisms in its diet? Explain.

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Arctic Jobs

Disappearing Act

Picky Eaters

In the Ice

Cause of Death

Above and Below

Salmon Monitoring

Under the Ice

Endangered Seals

Salmon Competition

Isolated Instance

Time of Death

Stationary Survival

Missing Whale

Seal Habitats

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Job: Above and Below

Questions: Do organisms in the same place always impact each other? Why or why not?

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Job: Cause of Death

Questions: Why did the whale die? Describe the hypotheses you explored, and the evidence you used to figure it out.

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Job: Disappearing Act

Questions: Why is detritus important in an ecosystem food web?

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Job: Endangered Seals

Questions: What factors should people consider when deciding whether a species is endangered?

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Job: In the Ice

Questions: Why were the cod staying near the ice shelf?

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Job: Isolated Instance

Questions: Why are there no glass sponges at Site Z? Describe the hypotheses you explored, and the evidence you used to figure it out.

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Job: Missing Whale

Questions: What evidence did you use to show that you had found the missing whale?

Define detritus.

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Job: Picky Eaters

Questions: What does it mean for food to be more nutrient-dense, and why did that affect how much the cod ate of each food source? Can you think of an example based on what humans eat?

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Job: Salmon Competition

Questions: Explain the relationship between salmon and cod — how do their populations affect each other?

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Job: Salmon Monitoring

Questions: Why do you think these scientists are monitoring the salmon population?

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Job: Seal Habitats

Questions: Identify abiotic and biotic factors in the ribbon seal habitat. List at least 3 for each.

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Job: Stationary Survival

Questions: How did the species in this ecosystem survive? Where did their energy come from?

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Job: Time of Death

Questions: What stage of decomposition was the whale at? What evidence did you use to figure it out?

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Job: Under the Ice

Questions: Form a hypothesis for how the organisms you discovered under the ice are able to survive. Think about how they might be adapted to the environment, including where they get energy from.

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Bayou Jobs

Turtle Danger

Turtle Danger (Part 2)

Blue Waters

Reef Decision

Dirty Detritus

Shrimp Yields

Hide ‘n Seek

Oxygen Tracking

Displaced Reef

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Shrimp-Tastrophe

Boom Cause

Methanogen

Alternative Energy

Job: Alternative Energy

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Questions: Given what you learned about species at the thermal vent, what do you expect would happen if there was a volcanic eruption that blocked out the light from Earth for a year?

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Job: Blue Waters

Questions: What senses might we be able to use to tell when something is out of balance in an aquatic environment?

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Job: Boom Cause

Questions: Methane hydrates are made of many molecules of energy-dense gas trapped in ice. What do you think would happen if you tried to bring methane hydrate out of the ocean, where it is under a LOT of pressure, to the surface?

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Job: Dirty Detritus

Questions: How does detritus interact with oxygen in ecosystems?

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Job: Displaced Reef

Questions: Why do you think there are so many species here at Site O (the oil rig)?

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Job: Hide n’ Seek

Questions: When is it important for a scientist to increase the accuracy of their model?

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Job: Methanogen

Questions: The equation for photosynthesis is

6CO₂+6H₂O→C₆H₁₂O₆+6O₂ OR Carbon Dioxide + Water makes Sugar and Oxygen.

Write an equation for methanogenesis, the process that methanogens do instead of photosynthesis.

Answers: (Hint: Methane is CH₄)

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Job: Oxygen Tracking

Questions: Does the amount of oxygen on Earth ever change? Explain why you think so or not.

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Job: Reef Decision

Questions: How does carbon dioxide seem to impact the pH of an ecosystem? What happens when plants are removed from an ecosystem?

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Job: Shrimp-Tastrophe

Questions: Does stress always have a negative effect on organisms? When might it be valuable for an organism to be stressed in a particular environment?

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Job: Shrimp Yields

Questions: Describe something you observed about the Trawling Bay ecosystem that seemed different than the other ecosystems you’ve visited.

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Job: Turtle Danger

Questions: Do the loggerhead turtles have any predators here at Site O?

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Job: Turtle Danger (Part 2)

Questions: How are humans impacting the turtles?

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Job: A Call for Help

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Questions: What does it mean to be a scientist?

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