Experiencing Marine Reserves
Experiencing Marine Reserves (EMR) empowers schools and communities by providing hands-on experience in the ocean. EMR is a programme of Mountains to Sea Conservation Trust
Freshwater Inquiry. What do I already know?
Whakamana te maunga,
Whakamana te wai,
He mauri o ngā tangata,
Ngā mea katoa he pai.
If we look after the water,
from the mountains to the
sea, it will look after us,
it is our life force.
What I know about freshwater | What I would like to find out | What I learnt (complete afterwards) |
I know that the fresh water we drink comes from oceans rivers and more places. We are really lucky that we have fresh water in our community. I know that fresh water is important because we drink fresh water and clean the dishes with fresh water. You are not allowed to take anything. We use fresh water for different things we do in our life. | I would like to find out more about where does the fresh water really comes from. Thtas what I want to know before we go snorkling. Where does fresh water come from? | I learnt that when the water goes up in the sky it os kind of hot but when it goes all the way up the water will get cold and then it comes back down and it starts to rain. |
Question: How important do you think freshwater conservation is for the environment?
I think its really important. ✅
Rate yourself
On the line put a face where you think you sit when you think about whether you value freshwater and try not to pollute it 😊
1_______________________________5😊____________________________10
(don’t value) (don’t knowingly pollute)
Explain your rating - why do you think you sit at that level
I think I don’t knowingly and pollute or don’t value because the freshwater because if I did not do knowingly and pollute because they will be rubbish and trash.
Rate yourself
On the line put a face where you think you sit when you think about the water in the creek at Molley Green 😊
1_______________________________5____________________________😊10
(so polluted that its dead) (fresh drinkable water)
Explain your rating - why do you think it sits at that level. What affects it?
Obviously I choose number 10 beacuse we need fresh water to survive in this world so I like sitting on the 10.
Freshwater Biodiversity - Match these words with the correct definitions
Word | Correct definition | Cut and Paste from here to match |
Catchment | Habitat | The terrestrial zone that fringes the edges of an aquatic habitat. |
Habitat\ | Endemic | a person or thing likely to cause damage or danger. |
Mauri | Runoff | Belonging exclusively or confined to a particular place. Is native and also not found anywhere else in the world. |
Endemic | Catchment | the draining away of water (or substances carried in it) from the surface of an area of land, a building or structure |
Whitebait | Riparian | An area of land where all of the water drains into one collection point. |
Runoff | Threats | The natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism. |
Riparian | Mauri | (in Maori culture) life force or essence |
Threats | Whitebait | The small silvery-white young of herrings, sprats, Galaxiids and similar marine fish, eaten in numbers as food. |
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Stream
Pond
River
Lake
Match the word with the freshwater habitat
Explanation:
Inanga have an unusual lifecycle. They begin life as eggs laid in vegetation beside streams in late summer and autumn. When the eggs hatch, they are carried downstream as larvae and spend the next six months at sea. In the spring they migrate upstream as whitebait and grow into adult fish.
Explain the life cycle of Whitebait by looking at the diagram
Add the threats to the natural habitat
Food webs
Draw an arrow from one organism to the next to show what eats what
How much is fresh?
How much of the water in the world if fresh?
3 %
How much of the water in the world is salt?
100%
The three form fresh water takes are?
Ice Liguid Gas
Of the three forms the world’s freshwater takes, only a small portion of it is in liquid form and available to drink (not polluted)
What percentage is this?
000.03%
So far…..
One fascinating fact I learnt the water that fell on the dinosaurs head is the same water because its recycled. You can’t make new water.
Something I would like to find out more about
I still want to invegetate about fresh water and marine life what lives in there and what happens. I want to keep invegetating.
A question I have is
How do you even get fresh water? Like where do you get the fresh water from?