Includes suggested ideas for rocky shore activities. Students can use this interactive to select and build the ideal home for a crab larvae. Website for saving our seas. The site contains well-researched scientific information enabling students to learn about the sea.
Processes and activities for schools when visiting rock pools. Explores the topic from a New Zealand curriculum perspective. New Zealand has a rich diversity of marine habitats, which provide homes to over 15, known species. This booklet is full of practical ideas and activities for exploring nature with children. A rocky shore consists of rocky ledges with pools of salty water, boulders and pebbles.
A series of interactive maps depicting New Zealand in various sea-level rise scenarios. New Zealand has waters that are home to a wide range of marine species.
Climate change will exacerbate existing coastal erosion or inundation problems. A gallery of images relating to keeping our shoreline clean and healthy. A 1hr nature scene featuring ocean waves curling and crashing into a rocky shore. Chitons are a type of shellfish, easily recognised by their eight plates or valves. Shelly Beach was once a very popular bathing and picnic spot on the Waitamata harbour close to Auckland city.
However, the rocky shore beach has since disappeared with the development of the harbou Since Dunedin based Greggs has been in the business of making and selling a range of food and beverages for New Zealanders. Perhaps their most familiar or classic were Greggs instant coffee a Man, two boys, and a pile of crayfish, at the back of Harry Daniel's fish shop, Manaia.
Changes to the environment and food web means that organisms need to move, if they can, adapt or become extinct. Green-lipped mussels are endemic to New Zealand. Camouflaged anemones like Oulactis muscosa, shown here, have sticky surfaces that catch gravel and fragments of shell and seaweed. Most of their body is embedded in crevices or sand, and when the t Limpets are hardy shellfish that can withstand storm waves and hours of sun exposure.
They have a powerful muscular foot that clamps the shell to rocks, preventing moisture loss when the tide is ou This is a hardy species, able to withstand time out of water. In sheltered sites For information about birds that make their home around the seashore: Go back to the page Earth, Sea and Sky. Select Birds of Sea and Shore. You can also use Te Ara to look for specific creatures by using the name of the creature as your keyword in the search bar. We can tell that it a government organisation because it has.
Otago University Marine Studies Centre This page has information about research the University of Otago is doing about the sea and sea life.
Go to the heading Learn with us and select Check out our education resources. Then select Resources to download. Scroll down the list and look for anything that says 'rocky shore' - there's heaps! There are specific fact sheets for the rocky shore in both the North Island and South Island. Go to Search by Habitat.
Then Rocky shore intertidal for a list of all the different creatures you can find on the shore. Select a picture for more facts about the animals' identification, habitat and diet. Tips: We like this website because it comes from Otago University, so the information will be well researched and reliable. You can tell that this is a website from an educational organisation because it has.
Habitat and ecology of the rocky shore A habitat is the home or environment of an organism like a plant or an animal. These zones are: The splash zone , or supratidal zone : this is the area above the tide line that still gets splashed by waves, but isn't under water. Subtidal zone : This is the area that is always covered by water. Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand Te Ara also describes New Zealand's coastal habitats like shores, dunes, beaches and rock pools and what lives in each of these places.
Explore rock pools and boulder shores to read about the purple shore crab and anemones that are found here. You can select Images and Media to find pictures like this diagram Zones of a rocky shore. It shows some of the animals and plants you can find in each zone. Science Learning Hub This website created by the University of Waikato and Curious Minds has lots of articles, videos and activities on different science topics.
Use the search bar at the top of the page and enter 'rocky shore'. You will find an article called Living World — The rocky shore that shows the different zones and sea life found here. Tips: Websites that have. Check the About us link on the website, if you can find one.
Coastal Wiki This is a searchable website with lots of information on marine and coastal life and issues. Enter 'rocky shore' into the search bar and look for Rocky shore habitat. The page has links to the different zones of the rocky shore , problems and adaptations, and also why rocky shores are important. Tips: Search words, or keywords, are the most important words in our question. We can always change our keywords or add more if we need to.
Human impact and conservation Climate change , oil spills and ocean pollution have had a huge impact on the rocky shore. From the homepage, go to Earth, Sea and Sky. Then find Ocean Study and Conservation. Read the story about Marine Conservation which is a good introduction to some of the laws that protect our marine environment.
The story on Pollution talks about the causes of our ocean pollution Tips: Remember that 'marine' means the habitat from the shore and right out into the ocean, so there will be information about the habitat and animals that live in much deeper water too! Maritime New Zealand This is the website of the government organisation responsible for the protection of New Zealand's marine habitat. From the homepage, look for the heading Public Info and go to Information for Schools.
Now select Learn more under Protecting our marine environment. Here you can find out about what kinds of pollution hurt our waters, what laws there are in place to help, and how you can get involved. Or from the homepage, go to Public Info Now choose Environment.
Here you can find out about the impact of oil on the environment , and how New Zealand responds to oil spills in our waters. Go to Marine at the top of the page, then find We all have a role to play.
Here you will find a link to Marine pages for kids. Read the pages about New Zealand's ocean environment and its importance. Ice over water reflects and absorbs most sunlight, thus seaweeds will die. But most of the world's seas and coasts do not freeze over, although frost may threaten creatures at low tide. Temperature and the amount of light play a role for ocean productivity, but there does not exist something like soil, except in very sheltered inlets sand and mud flats. The diagram shown here shows typical coastal zoning in a temperate climate.
The intertidal the subject of this chapter is driven by the tide. No tide, no intertidal, but there may exist a splash zone in case of waves. Thus the intertidal zone is clearly defined by the movement of the tide. Below it extends the infralittoral photic zone and circalittoral zone demarcated by lack of light to grow plants, or inadequate quantity of light. These two zones are also clearly defined as they depend on the clarity of the water. In murky water the photic zone may be as shallow as 3m, whereas in a clear blue sea of 30m visibility, the photic zone may extend down to 35m until also the quality of the light becomes insufficient.
On exposed shores the splash zone is wide, whereas on sheltered shores it becomes essentially absent. Above the splash zone begins the terrestrial world, marked by lichens white, black, orange crusts that are resistant to salt spray. Characteristic of the splash zone is that sometimes for many days in succession, during calm weather, the sea does not get there. The diagram shows how the three zones are substantially altered by wave action, which also blurs their distinction.
But when the organisms die, they either sink down or float up. Thus the two places where the food collects, are the surface and the bottom. It so happens that the intertidal is the ONLY place where this happens, thus planktonic food phytoplankton, zooplankton and detritus is aplenty. In tidal inlets where wave action is weak, detritus abounds, whereas on the exposed rocky shore, the surface 'scum' is a rich source of food.
But the surface can also become a menace in the case of oil spills and other forms of pollution that are surface-bound. This may explain the often sudden disappearance of many organisms such as the red beadlet anemone Isactinia tenebrosa.
The first are like families living from their garden plots of vegetables; the second are like families ordering their pizzas and fried chickens from far away. The first live on low quality food veges , the latter on high quality food proteins.
The first cannot be as productive as the latter. Remember though that even those living from locally grown vegetables, still benefit from imported nutrients. The greenish zone is the mid intertidal. Pied shags are drying themselves after a day's fishing. The reef flat is rich in organisms and tide pools abound with seaweed species. The seaweeds are cartilage weed Xiphophora chondrophylla , flapjack Carpophyllum maschalocarpa and just visible stalked kelp Ecklonia radiata.
The spring tide covers no more than 2m compare with the birds. It is a very calm sea now at spring low tide and stringy seaweeds Carpophyllum maschalocarpa are having a hard time. This is the sheltered side of the rocks, and white bird excrement shows a curved splash zone where it is washed away. The greenish zone is the eulitteral. Every bit of rock is covered in long-lived sea life. Stalked kelp dares to grow in the lower littoral fringe. East coast Mercury Islands.
Reef stars Stichaster australis surviving desiccation drying out while reaching for the black band of flea mussels.
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