Understanding Water and its Role in our Lives and our Environment

1. Understanding Water and its Role in our Lives and our Environment Water Conservation and Protection in the Barnegat Bay Watershed © Amanda Traina and Louise Wootton

2. POP QUIZ!!! WATER FACTS!!! What’s Do You Know about Water? http://hpwd.org/images/waterIQlogo.jpg

3. How much of the earth's water is ocean? • A) 50% • B) 30% • C) 75% • D) 95%

4. What atoms make up a water molecule? • A) ABC • B) CO2 • C) Ca • D) H2O

5. Which country has the highest average daily water use per person • A) Canada • B) Australia • C ) United States • D) Japan • E) China • 1,268 gallons • 945 gallons • 1,565 gallons • 668 gallons • 334 gallons

6. The human body is made up of _____% water. • A) 100% • B) 1% • C) 66% • D) 30%

7. Condensation Precipitation Run-off Evaporation Infiltration Fresh Water Storage Run-off Ground Water enters ocean Ground Water

9. Groundwater

10. Aquifer • Water-bearing rock readily transmits water to wells and springs • Precipitation eventually adds water into the porous rock of the aquifer. http://www.ranneymethod.com/images/collector_well.jpg

12. Focus on the Barnegat Bay Water in your Home Ecosystem

14. Barnegat Bay Watershed Lands vary from coastal dune, marshes, interior pine barrens Covers 660 square miles of water, pinelands, towns, and open space!

15. Point Pleasant Boardwalk Metedeconk River Toms River Huddy Park Seaside Heights Boardwalk Beachwood Elementary William Dudley Park Island Beach State Park Clamming Creek

16. Beachwood Elementary Huddy Park Toms River Clamming Creek Metedeconk River Island Beach State Park Point Pleasant Boardwalk Seaside Heights Boardwalk William Dudley Park

17. Barnegat Bay Estuary http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/2003/circ1262/#figurecaption44234224

18. Salinity levels along an estuary Ocean River Fresh water flow

19. Organisms of the Barnegat Bay Estuary More than 180 species of algae (mostly tiny phytoplankton) reported from Barnegat Bay Home to more than 100 species of fish Many species of crab, shrimp, snail, clam etc. live under its waters Thousands of waterbirds nest on its beaches and fish in its waters

21. What is a food chain? A food chain is “a sequence of organisms, each of which uses the next, lower member of the sequence as a food source1”

22. What is a producer? An organism that creates it’s own food, usually through photosynthesis What can you think of that might be the most common source of energy for all producers? The SUN

23. Important facts about food chains In a food chain, each organism obtains energy from the one at the level below. Plants are called producers because they create their own food through photosynthesis Animals are consumers because they cannot create their own food, they must eat (consume) plants or other animals to get the energy they need.

24. Primary Producers Primary producers are “organisms capable of producing their own food” We can also say that they are photosynthetic, use light energy. Examples of primary producers include algae, phytoplankton, and large plants. Primary producers are eaten by primary consumers (herbivores) http://i.ehow.com/images/GlobalPhoto/Articles/4729527/sun-plant_Full.jpg

25. Primary Producers of Barnegat Bay Eelgrass Diatoms http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/Photography/Images/Content/diatom-shapes-527153-sw.jpg http://weblog.signonsandiego.com/weblogs/afb/archives/eelgrass.jpg Dinoflagellates Microflagellates http://www.vattenkikaren.gu.se/fakta/arter/algae/mikroalg/ceraspp/cerasp.jpeg http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/imgsep03/013.jpg

26. Four types of consumer Herbivores: animals that eat only plants Carnivores: animals that eat only other animals Omnivores: animals that eat animals and plants Detritivores: Animals that eat dead materials and organic wastes (aka decomposers) http://alaska.fws.gov/fire/role/unit1/images/I-34.jpg

27. Other Ways to Classify Consumers Primary Consumers: Herbivores Secondary Consumers: Carnivores that eat herbivores Tertiary Consumers: Carnivores that eat other carnivores http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange1/current/lectures/kling/ecosystem/foodchain2.gif

28. Primary Consumers in Barnegat Bay Grass Cerith (a type of snail; eats mostly Eelgrass) http://www.jaxshells.org/bitt.jpg

29. Primary Consumers in Barnegat Bay Eelgrass Pill Bug (eats Eelgrass) http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ODUGlGhaapI/SKP-k__HmDI/AAAAAAAAE5Y/4Ifc_8nzmeA/s400/pill+bug.JPG

30. Secondary Consumers Blue Crab (eats worms, snails, etc.) http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/gallery/descript/alligatorgar/bluecrab.JPG

31. Tertiary Consumers Eat other animals in marsh including voles, fish, and other types of birds Osprey Sandpiper www.montereybay.com http://bkpass.tripod.com/LeastSandpiper.jpg

32. Omnivore Mallard ducks eats invertebrates, fish, amphibians, plants http://ginavivinetto.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/mallard_duck.jpg

33. Detritivore Worms are common detritivores in many ecosystems including Barnegat Bay

34. What is a food web? A food web is “an interlocking pattern of food chains”

35. Barnegat Bay Estuary

36. Human Impact on Barnegat Bay Estuary

37. Why Care? Well for water supply in a coastal town Water supply for seaside towns such as Seaside Heights and Point Pleasant Beach affected

38. Why Care? Too much salt water intrusion into estuary (resulting from low river flow) can make certain animals in estuary die, along with grasses they eat. About 85% of the fish and shellfish sold in world spend all or part of lives in estuaries http://www.chemgapedia.de/vsengine/media/vsc/en/ch/16/uc/images/partmix.gif

39. Why Care?

41. Show You Care Be Aware!