
Fishy Food Webs
Ages: 8-11 years old
- Behavior
- Natural history
- Sustainable seafood
- Ocean trash
The big, small and weird are all part of a complex food web, and so are you! Explore those weird and wild webs more with this activity for ages 10+ where you’ll also learn more about how The Marine Mammal Center cares for our patients and those food webs (and you can too!) by serving up sustainable seafood. Use the answer key after you complete it to see how you matched up.
natural history
sustainable seafood
ocean trash
Upper elementary
8 years
9 years
10 years
11 years
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