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Friday 26 July 2019

David Attenborough Documentary Coastal Seas

   Today we watched the Our Planet Documentary, narrated by David Attenborough called Coastal Seas. Here are some interesting facts we learnt: - 90 percent of marine creatures live in coastal water.  
 -  This is because the sea floor is in reach of the sunlight 
-The documentary we watched was filmed in the Everglades 
-National Park, in Florida USA.
-The lush meadows of the park support the marine life 
-The giant trevally and sting rag are extremely good hunters.
-Stingrays hunt for their prey that 
-Hide in the seagrass 
-There is a lot of food for The sea creatures and for humans in the 
-Coastal waters
-The bottlenose dolphin a special way of hunting shoals of mullet 
-They create a circle around the fish and flick up the mud which -
-Make The water murky the mullet then get confused and jump up 
-In the air making it easy for the dolphin to catch the mullet 
-Coral reefs make up less than 1%of all the marine species that live in The ocean.
-coral reefs are missing an important member of the community-
Sharks!
-Sharks numbers have been dramatically reduced due to Overfishing.

-Overfishing has reduced the shark population by 90%

2 comments:

  1. Kia ora,
    This is cool. Make shore you reread to make it make seances. Also make it so we can read it. but this has got some interesting facts.
    Ka pai

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  2. hey my name is kobe i go to paparore school you could of used ctrl c so we can se your great learning better i love your post whats your favourite part of your learning

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