These student activity sheets are for the Oyster Reef Ecology Lesson Plan.

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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