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%
