Life in a Coral Reef

1. Life in a Coral Reef

2. In this lesson, you will discover: 1. Some of the animals found in a coral reef ecosystem. 2. The difference between carnivores, herbivores, omnivores, detritivores, decomposers, scavengers, and predator/prey.

3. Sharks Rays Eels Shrimp Squid Octopus Predators eat other animals (prey). Prey are eaten by predators. Eat animals such as

4. Long-nosed Butterfly Fish Hawaiian Lionfish White Tipped Shark Carnivores such as: Eat other animals.

5. Surgeon Fish Sea Urchins Herbivores such as: Eat only plants

6. Blennies Crabs Butterfly Fish Omnivores such as: Eat both plants and other animals.

7. Sharks (also carnivores) Crabs (also omnivores) Decorator Crab Scavengers such as: Feed on dead organisms (but not waste products).

8. Brittle Starfish Sea Cucumbers Shrimp Detritivores such as: Eat parts of dead organisms and waste products.

9. Bacteria Decomposers such as: - are organisms that return nutrients into ecological cycles by breaking down dead organic material.

10. All of these organisms are interconnected in the Food Chain? Food chains demonstrate how animals & plants are related by the foods they eat.

11. Living Things Have Various Roles Tertiary Consumer TertiaryConsumers TertiaryConsumers Secondary Consumer Primary Producers TertiaryConsumers Decomposers SecondaryConsumers Primary Consumers These roles can be best defined in a food web.