David attenborough

Today we watched a documentary with David Attenborough which talked about Coastal seas. Here are some interesting facts we wrote together as a class:

-   90 percent of marine creatures live in coastal water.  

 -  This is because the sea floor is in reach of the sunlight 

-The documentary we watched was filmed in the Everglades national 

-Park in florida usa 

-The lush meadows of the park support the marine life 

-The giant trevally and sting rag are extremely good hunters.

-Stingrays hunt for their prey that 

-Hide in the seagrass 

-There is a lot of food for The sea creatures and for humans in the 

-Coastal waters

-The bottlenose dolphin a special way of hunting shoals of mullet 

-They create a circle around the fish and flick up the mud which -

-Make The water murky the mullet then get confused and jump up 

-In the air making it easy for the dolphin to catch the mullet 

-Coral reefs make up less than 1% of all the marine species that live in 

The ocean 

• coral reefs are missing an important member of the community

-Sharks

-sharks numbers have been dramatically reduced due to overfishing 

-overfishing has reduced the sharks population by 90%