Melissa's Sea Horse Information

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Zebra Sea Horses☺

The Seas Creatures!

Physical Appearance

  • Pattern like a Zebra which is black and white
  • It has a Dorsal Fin.
  • The Average size is 0.6 inches to 14 inches.

Responses to its Enviroment

  • Has no teeth
  • And can blend in into its surroundings.

Behavioral Adaptations

  • They have to eat their food and swallow it whole
  • Zebra seahorses eat Copepods, Shrimp, and Plankton.
  • They have to eat small animals of the cause they have no stomach.

Interactions with other Seahorses

  • Seahorses tend to stay with only one other seahorse.

Interacts with Environment

  • The zone the Zebra seahorse lives in is the sunlight zone.

Sunlight zone

  • The average depth is 50 to 660 feet.
  • The average temperature is 27 to 104.
  • Light is minimal.

Impact the Ecosystem

  • The main reason why seahorses are dying is because of hunting
  • And over fishing by accidentally fishing them

Ways to help them

  • By not over fishing
  • And not by using them as souvenirs

Negative

  • We kill them for food and accesories
  • And by harming its Environment.

Keep track

  • We can keep a tracker on them or every once in a while check the oceans.

Ways to help

  • By not trying to fish them
  • By not cooking them for food
  • Don't make them souvenirs.

Predators/Prey

  • Some predators include Crabs, Sting Rays, and Penguins but it sometimes depends on the location.

Consumer

  • Zebra Seahorses are Consumers because they eat plants and small animals.

Became Extinct

  • I think the food chain would be impacts by some animals increase or decrease.

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