Predators - L5.7 CCE
Channel: Aquatic Science with Dr Rudy Rosen - Closed Captioned
Date: 17/04/2015

Predators, from Aquatic Science STEM curriculum Lesson 5 (Aquatic Communities) closed captioned in English that includes topics: What are some of the basic survival needs of all living things?  What is a population? What is a community?  What is habitat? Why is it important? Why must organisms compete for resources? What is carrying capacity? What is a niche? Why is it important?  What are invasive species? Why are they a problem?  What is the source of energy for aquatic communities? How does energy circulate among organisms in an aquatic community?  What is a food chain? What is a food web? What is an energy pyramid? What is a trophic level?  How do predator and prey species keep species populations in balance in aquatic communities? What is natural selection?  In what ways might food webs, food chains, and predator-prey relationships be different in a pond, an estuary, and the Gulf of Mexico? What happens when one piece is altered or removed? Dr. Rudolph “Rudy” Rosen is a professor in the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University.

Aquatic Science with Dr. Rudy Rosen Closed Captioned is the English language closed captioned version of an on-line video aquatic science curriculum arranged into 13 lessons in YouTube Playlists. Short videos covering important aquatic science topics can be used in teaching instruction or for self-education.  Each lesson covers a major subject area and is broken down into short sub-topic video presentations. A comprehensive teaching guide and enhancements can be downloaded FREE here: http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/publications/learning/aquaticscience/teacher_guide.pdf

The teaching textbook is published by the Texas A&M University Press and can be obtained here: http://www.tamupress.com/product/Texas-Aquatic-Science,7918.aspx or at Amazon here http://www.amazon.com/Aquatic-Science-Sponsored-Meadows-Environment/dp/1623491932 

The instructional website is here: http://texasaquaticscience.org/ 

Aquatic Science is a cooperative education project sponsored by The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University, Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Texas Parks and Wildlife, and the National Science Foundation sponsored Research Coordination Network for Climate, Energy, Environment and Engagement in Semiarid Regions (RCN-CE3SAR). Some materials were adapted from or provided by the Missouri Department of Conservation.