Oceanography101 Phoenix Flow of Energy in Marine Ecosystems Project
Create a diagram, chart, or illustration in which you depict the flow of energy in marine ecosystems. You may use either a web format in which food chains are included or a biomass pyramid format. Created your own diagram, You will be counted off for using a copyrighted figure obtained from the web.
This assignment should be submitted as a paper. Please do not submit this assignment as a PowerPoint.
The assignment must include the following:
- Title Page
- Diagram, chart, or illustration of a web format or biomass pyramid
- This chart must be your own creation. Do not copy a diagram from the internet!
- Description of primary productivity
- Description of a method used to measure the amount of primary productivity
- Description of how primary productivity affects the color of the ocean
- List of the factors that cause regional primary productivity to vary among polar, tropical, and temperate oceans
- Description of how the selected web or biomass is affected by overfishing