What Was for Dinner
NOAA Ocean Explorer
Ocean Literacy Principles:
OLP#5: The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems.OLP#6: The ocean and humans are inextricably interconnected.
OLP#7: The ocean is largely unexplored.
Overview
Students will be able to compare and contrast photosynthesis and chemosynthesis as sources of primary production for biological communities; give at least three examples of organisms that live near hydrothermal vent systems; and describe two sources of primary production observed in biological communities associated with volcanoes of the Marianas Arc.
For more information: http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov.
SUBJECTS:
GRADES: 6-8
This lesson meets National Science Standards
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