Oysters!
Oysters belong to the group of animals that do not have backbones.
What are invertebrates?
The title of our project
What is "Oyster Friends: Biodiversity in our Harbor."
a living thing (plant or animal)
What is an organism?
brackish-a mixture of salt and freshwater
oysters growing on top of each other to form a community
What is an oyster reef?
this organism has helped to improve biodiversity in our harbor by filtering the water and making it healthier for marine organisms
What are oysters?
Marine organisms in NY Harbor
What is our project about?
an animal that hunts and kills other animals for food
What is a predator?
the ecosystem where you will find the marine organisms we are studying
What is the estuary?
to work together to complete a task
What is collaborate?
This organization has put millions of oysters back into NY harbor to restore oyster populations
What is the Billion Oyster Project?
choosing the organisms we wanted to study
What was our first step in creating our project?
how long an organisms lives
lifespan
the two different bodies of water that form an estuary
What are the river and the sea?
what an organism looks like
What is the physical description?
restoring oyster reefs has shown an increase in the _____________________________, or variety of organisms that live in our harbor
What is biodiversity?
creating a model
What format did we choose for our project?
An organisms resource population (what it eats)
What is diet?
The underwater communities created by this organism help to protect our harbor from storm floods
What are oysters?
a community where living things (like plants and animals) interact with each other and the non-living things in their environment (like water, air, and soil)
What is an ecosystem?
the tool we use to measure salinity in our oyster tanks
What is a hydrometer?
one month (or four weeks)
How long did it take to create our project from start to finish?
a body part or behavior that helps an organism to survive in its habitat
What is an adaptation?
the water in estuaries is _______________- which means it is not very deep
What is shallow?
the variety of organisms in an ecosystem
What is biodiversity?