Connected+Curriculum+Rocky+Shore

The Rocky Shore

**What Causes Tides? by Heather media type="custom" key="5721329"

Hermit Crab Animation** by Daniel media type="custom" key="5708619"

media type="custom" key="5702961"
 * Interview with a Scientist:

Hermit Crab:** [|Hermit crab notes.pdf] Hermit Crab Note Taking Graphic Organiser [|Report Writing Hermit Crab.pdf] [|Diagram of a Hermit Crab.pdf]
 * Hermit Crab Diagram:**

Biodiversity Checklist Scroll down to page 78 on the document below from the Department of Conservation [it only starts at page 70]. Check out the different groups that animals belong to. [|Biodiversity.pdf]

We will be reading about or using the words on our word wall during our unit of inquiry. Please put the dictionary definition of your given word in the table below. [Click on the box, place your cursor after the colon, press enter so that your meaning is on the next row and type.]
 * Word Wall:**

A type of Invertebrate that have five fold radial symmetry. ||  ||< adaptations: ||   ||< biodiversity: A measure of the health of bological species. Louis ||  ||< observable: Notice or perceive and register it being significant Zania ||
 * < echinoderms:

Its a soft bodied hard shelled animal. Its a type of slug. Jessie ||  ||< __Predator:__ //Animals that prey on other animals.// // __Chelsea__ // ||  ||< __Ecology__: The branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings. Isabel ||  ||< species: ||
 * < mollusc:

A animal that eats flesh Vinu ||  ||< detrius: Matter produced by dead organisms ||  ||< filter: a porous device for removing impurities or solid particles from a liquid or gas passed through it ||  ||< dehydration: Loss of body fluid. Dyson ||
 * < carnivore:

An animal lacking a backbone. -Heather ||  ||< plankton: The small and microscopic organisms drifting or floating in the sea or ||
 * < vertebrate: ||  ||< splash zone: ||   ||< invertebrate:

The state of the tide when at its highest level Ollie ||  ||< decomposers: Fungas or invertabrate decomposes organic matarial. Shreya ||  ||< crustacea: A group of animals with two pairs of antennae e.g crab or lobster Paige ||  ||< pollution: ||
 * < high tide zone:

An animal that eats plants Lauren ||  ||< low tide zone: A mount of water only during the lowest tides in this area exposed to air. Connor ||  ||< salinity: Containing or impregnated with salt ||  ||< zoo plankton: ||
 * < herbivore:

The mid tide zone is submerged an flooded for approximately equal periods of time per tide cycle. Jaya ||  ||< predation: ||
 * < survival: ||  ||< habitat: ||   ||< mid tide zone:

[|How intertidal animals avoid drying out.pdf]
 * __How inter-tidal marine animals avoid drying out.__**