A Coral Reef Food Chain: A Who-Eats-What Adventure in the Caribbean Sea (Follow That Food Chain)

Welcome to a Caribbean coral reef! As you snorkel just offshore, you see brilliant fish, waving sea anemones, diving turtles - maybe even a prowling barracuda! The coral reef is full of life - from coral polyps snagging plankton to a moray eel gobbling up a goby fish. Day and night on the coral reef, the hunt is on to find food - and to avoid becoming someone else's next meal. All living things are connected to one another in a food chain, from animal to animal, animal to plant, and plant to animal. What path will you take to follow the food chain through the coral reef? Will you . . . Tail a tiger shark as it sniffs out its next victim? Check out a stingray crushing clams? Watch a feathery fan worm trap bits of leftovers? Follow all three chains and many more on this who-eats-what adventure! Title Page......Page 3 Copyright Information......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 Introduction: Welcome to the Coral Reef......Page 6 Choose a Tertiary Consumer......Page 8 Coral Reef Plants......Page 32 A Coral Reef Food Web......Page 34 Glossary......Page 62 Further Reading and Websites......Page 63 Selected Bibliography......Page 64 Index......Page 65 Photo Acknowledgments/About the Authors......Page 66 Back Cover......Page 68 Gives readers an exciting glimpse into animals and their habitats while illuminating curriculum concepts related to food webs and biomes. Profiles a variety of coral reef consumers, producers, and decomposers, explaining how each one fits into the region