As a result of these activities, students will be able to:

• Understand the relationships between aquatic animals and their abiotic environment, specifically sunlight, oxygen, and nutrients
• Generate a basic food web from sample ecological data
• Define and calculate species richness and species abundance as ecological measures of diversity
• Appreciate the impact of humans on ecosystems like oyster reefs
• Make predictions about the effect of the dead zone on an oyster reef ecosystem

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