Life Cycle - Natural Environment (4B)
Lab 


PROBLEM: How many different types of organisms live in a mudflat?

PREDICTION:

PROCEDURE: Using the bag of organisms from the San Francisco Bay mud, determine how many different organisms there are. Then discuss with your instructor the possible "food chain" of these organisms. You may use the back of this lab sheet if you need more room.

DRAW SPECIMEN AND NAME

DESCRIBE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CONCLUSION: Recreate the food chain of these organisms by stating who eats whom.

Sketch a food web of organisms in the San Francisco Bay mud by linking the food chains you've identified on the back of this lab sheet.


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