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Food Web
Florida's Mangroves
Location
100
Shrimp farming
What is the main risk of the Mangrove ecosystem?
100
They are among some of the most productive and biologically complex ecosystems on earth.
What are they among?
100
The tiger.
What animal is the biggest predator
100
Red, Black, and White Mangrove
What are three of the Florida's mangrove types?
100
30 degrees.
They are located how many degrees away from the equator?
200
2004
What year was the tsunami in the Indian Ocean in?
200
A few hours
How much time would it take to kill an ordinary plant because of the salt levels in the mangrove's waters?
200
Prawns, shellfish, and crabs
What are the primary consumers?
200
44%
What percent of Tampa Bay's Mangroves have they lost?
200
New Zealand, Southeast Asia, Florida, and Africa
Name four places where mangroves grow:
300
They protect us from big waves.
How do mangroves help us?
300
Prop-roots or buttresses, and pneumatophores.
What are the two types of roots?
300
Humans, herins
What are the secondary consumers?
300
The White Mangrove lives there
Which Florida Mangrove that you learned about live at the highest elevation?
300
Tampa Bay
Where have they lost over 44% of their mangroves?
400
A complex root system
What kind of root system do mangroves have?
400
The Mangrove tree.
What is the main producer?
400
elliptical, light green, yellow-ish.
What color are the white mangroves leaves?
500
Under threat world wide.
Where are they under threat?
500
An ultra-filtration system
What kind of system does the mangrove have that keeps a lot of the salt out?
500
Shellfish
What are attatched to the roots of the mangrove?
500
Lives on the water's edge with tangled reddish roots
What are the characteristics of the Red Mangrove?
500
Found along estuaries and protected sea coasts.
Where are mangroves found?