James Parsons 8/Mrs.Green
Wet Lands
Wet Lands Food Web
The sun is the producer of the food web. The other producers are bladderwort and butterfly orchid. The primary consumers that eat the producers are grass carp, eastern mud turtle, and mosquito. The secondary's that eat the primary's are southern lizard frog, the great blue heron, and the racoon. The tertiary consumer that eats primary and secondary consumers is the American alligator.
Symbiotic Realationships
Commensalism
The heron is resting on the cow. The cow is unaffected while the heron gets rest.
Mutualism
The bird is cleaning out the alligators mouth. The alligator gets a free dentist check up and the bird gets food.
Parasitism
The leeches get food but the fish dies.
How humans positivley effect the wet land environment.
Humans negatively effect by polluting the water, altering the flows of water so some fish can't migrate, and causing less oxygen in certain places.
How humans positively effect the wet land environment.
Humans positively effect by introducing new plants, introducing new fish, and when they knock a log over or something, it provides a new home for a fish.
American alligator
The American alligator is the tertiary consumer of the food web. It can eat primary and secondary consumers, but nothing will eat it except for its on species.
Great blue heron
The great blue heron is a secondary consumer. It can it the primary consumers but it can be eaten by the tertiary consumer in the food web.
Bladderwort
The bladderwort is a producer. It takes the light from the sun and turns it into energy. It can not eat any other animals.