There's More to Catch in the Arctic than a Cold

By: John B.

                 HELP MEEEEE!!!!

I created this web page based of the following Georgia Performance Standard.

S4L1. Students will describe the roles of organisms and the flow of energy within an ecosystem.

a. Identify the roles of producers, consumers, and decomposers in a community.

b. Demonstrate the flow of energy through a food web/food chain beginning with sun

light and including producers, consumers, and decomposers.

c. Predict how changes in the environment would affect a community (ecosystem) of

organisms.

d. Predict effects on a population if some of the plants or animals in the community are

scarce or if there are too many.  

It's freezing out here!

    You may think that the Arctic is just a frozen wasteland, but really it isn't. There are tons of things about the Arctic that you probably don't know. Here are a few things about the Arctic.

Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers in the Arctic                                                                                       MMMM...Fish  

  

    In the Arctic ecosystem they have producers, consumers, and decomposers. The producers in the Arctic are the plants and trees on   land under water. Consumers in the Arctic are the animals and bacteria. The decomposers decompose dead things. In the Arctic there are none.                       

         

                          Click here for a food web game

Here is a chart about animals and what they eat.

                       Animals of the Arctic                             Their Chow  (food)

polar bears

seals, other sea mammals, birds, vegetation, and kelp.    
 lemmings berries
 Arctic fox lemmings, voles, squirrels, birds, bird eggs, and fish.
seal Arctic cod, krill, and other fish                       
snowy owl  mice, eggs, and small birds
caribou grass
walrus       clams

Make Sure the Arctic Stays the Same.  

                                                                                                                         

        If there was a Change in the Arctic

                                                                            

If the Arctic had a global warming it would affect not only the Arctic  but the rest of the world because the snow would melt and flood the world! The water might be so high that only the torch and crown would not  be covered on the Statue of  Liberty. If an animal became overpopulated its prey would become scarce and it would become scarce too. Each year the lemmings become overpopulated but, because there are so many they push each other off cliffs and in water. Other animals eat them too.

                                                                

oooh... pretty colors.

    The northern lights are pretty.  They are also known as auroras.  You already know that, but do you want to know how they are made? click here to see how auroras are made.

Aren't there more ecosystems?

    Very good question and to answer that just click here

    and here.

I don't wanna go!

I'm sorry but we have to. Well I hope you learned a lot. Ice miss you.