Galapagos Food Web Thingy
Sea Lions and fur seals
- trophic level 5
- Scientific: Otariinae
- Habitat: off the shores of many shores around the globe
- Lowering number of population due to lowering prey
- it's a carnivorous consumer of fish
Galapagos Penguins
Galapagos Shark
Humpback Whales
- trophic level 4
- Scientific: Spheniscus mendiculus
- Habitat: the coast and waters of the Galapagos islands
- It's a consumer of sardines and anchoives
- overfishing has caused the number of it's prey to decline, therefore declining it's population numbers
- Carnivorous consumer
- Third trophic level and fourth, and fifth
- Scientific: Carcharhinus galapagensis
- Habitat: around the shallow waters of the galapagos islands
- Environmental threats: Loss of prey numbers in population
- It's a consumer of Green sea turtles, carnivorous
- Trophic Level 4
- scientific Name: M. novaeangliae
- Habitat: Migratory whales around the worlds oceans
- Threats: they're classified as "least concern". So there seems to be no concern apart from lowering prey numbers
- It consumes zooplankton and small fish
- they migrate on average 16,000 miles a year
- They're carnivorous consumers
Green Sea Turtles
Groupers
- second trophic level
- Scientific Name:Chelonia mydas
- Habitat: shallow coastal waters
- Threats: human harvesting of eggs and of them
- It's an herbivore that consumes the Ulva
- Trophic level: 4
- Scientific name: Epinephelinae
- Habitat: distributed all around the worlds oceans and river banks
- Threats: Overfishing
- It consumes smaller fish
- They're extremely endangered
- carnivore and consumer
Killer Whale
- Trophic level 6
- no natural pedators
- carnivore
- Habitat: every ocean on earth
- Decline in it's natural prey, seals
- Orcinus Orca
Anchovies and Sardines
Ulva
- trophic level: 3, 2
- Anchovies and Sardines
- Scientific name: Engraulis encrasicolus
- Habitat: The oceans around the pockets where zooplankton abide
- Their natural prey have slowly been lowering in population
- It consumes Zooplankton!
- it's a popular thing to eat in the Philippines
- consumers and carnivores
- Trophic level 1
- Scientific Name: Ulva Lactuca
- Habitat: every ocean on earth
- Environmental threats: none
- It's a producer, and is ingested by sea turtles
- it's known as sea lettuce
Zooplankton
- Trophic Level One
- Producer
- Common name: phytoplankton
- scientific name: phyton plankton
- upper sunlit area of most major bodies of water
- global warming said to be reducing population sizes
- It's the producer of the energy in the web
- they're too small to be seen individually by the naked eye!
- Producers
- Trophic level: 2
- Scientific name: Hyperia macrocephala
- Habitat: live in certain patches around the earth's oceans
- Environmental threats: rising water temperatures threaten it's cool water habitats
- It's a heterotrophic species that eats phytoplankton
- They're not evenly spread through the oceans!
- Consumers and carnivores