Geographic location
Where is it?
Around the southern part of Africa
What does the marine snail do?
Helps recycle organic matter and is food or larger predators
temperature during summer
16° to 22°
what is the biggest impact on this ocean
Overfishing
who is at the top of the food web?
orcas/killer whales
How big is Temperate South Africa in total (Km)
2,000 Km
most popular seabird?
African penguin (is a bio indicator for the health of marine food web)
temperature during winter
13° to 15°
biggest contribution to pollution in this ocean
Plastic littering
who is at the bottom of the food web
giant kelp
how big is the coastline? (Km)
2,800Km
Apex predator🐺
Great white shark (regulates the population of fur cape seals)
How many habitat types
136
Biggest effect from plastic litter
marine species ingesting them
what is the great african seaforest
a giant kelp forest
what is latitude 😇
22° and 35°
what is the biggest mammal
Cape fur seal (consumes cephalopods and fish)
what is the biggest producer
kelp! (helps by being a structural habitat and buffers wave action)
how much of this ocean is protected?
10%
why does the sardine run happen?
when sardines migrate north
Marine provinces
what is the only kelp shark found there
Puffadder shyshark
what is the range in temperature for this ocean
10°c to 27°c
what are activists actively doing right now
protecting certain endangered marine life
what is the sardine run?
dolphins circle sardines into a big bait ball and feast