Fresh Water: Connections To My Summer School Biology Class

I recently saw the informational movie Fresh Water and I found many connections to my summer school biology class. In the beginning, I had doubts that the movie would be interesting; I was pleasantly surprised that I learned several thought provoking facts about animals and environments. In addition, the movie included several emotionally charged reactions: laugh-out-loud comedy, monkey’s swimming underwater and crocodile’s eating prey.
I also earned that within our earth, the animals have to adapt in order to survive. The salmon, living in an aquatic environment, swim in groups upstream, which is behavioral adaptation; this is modifying a behavior in order to survive and reproduce. In addition, the salmon stay in a large population and when they swim, they provide energy transfer to the bears from the ocean. The animals continue to impress as they show more behavior adaptations such as the mouthbrooding of mother fish to its babies. Another type of adapting is the …show more content…
The East Africa Lakes, for example, holds over 850 different species in its aquatic environment. In habitats where there are omnivores, there are food chains. I saw food chains when the movie showed the spectacled caiman eating the spoonbills and wood storks which would eat fish in the pantanal wetland. Also, we saw the food chain occur with the social otters and the crocodiles in the ecosystem, where living and nonliving things interact. The crocodiles, obviously larger than the otters, were the consumer of the otters, the crocodiles are carnivores. We also viewed some producers, like some of the plants that the monkeys chewed on; producers transfer sunlight into food. The producer-consumer level is the trophic level. An example of this is when the carnivore eats the producer. In the East Africa river, a lot of the animals eat one another, which is a food web, a series of food