Adaptations
- Adaptation is very necessary to to survive in a tide pool. This is because tide pools are exposed to the water's ebb and flow.
- Plants and animals must adapt to survive wave turbulence, desiccation stress and competition for space and food.
- Barnacles, sponges, bryozoan, and other animals live on top of whatever or whomever they can latch onto.
- Sea Urchin uses its burrowed home along with its long suction tube feet and spines to protect itself when the waves come.
- Sea Star have hundreds of tiny suction tube feet on the under side of each arm to help them adapt by holding on to the rocks against these great forces.
Relationships
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- Predator and Pray: The algae and the Zoo- Plankton. Making the Algae the prey and the Zoo- Plankton the Predator.
- The green anemone is an animal that carries algae plants inside. The algae is protected from predators, while the anemone get nourishment from the algae. Making this symbiotic relationship an Mutualism.
Fun Fact !!!!!!!!!
- Barnacle-watching is an “on your hands and knees” sport.
- They are small crustaceans and may not even seem to be alive.
- When the doors at the top of the barnacle shell open you see delicate, feathery legs sweep through the water.
- There are 750 kinds of barnacles throughout the world’s oceans.
- Twenty-three of those species are found in the Pacific Northwest.
- Most are called “acorn barnacles” and may range in size from tiny ones smaller than your little fingernail to huge sub tidal barnacles 6 or more inches in diameter at the base.