Pacific Phytoplankton are ( gigas) (Enhydra lutris) Zooplankton are microscopic plants that live in Sea Otters eat , , microscopic and the top layers of the . are filter feeders who urchins, , and the immature stages of They use energy from the sun rely on for food. An other . larger animals. to grow. These small plants are adult oyster can filter 50 Zooplankton eat very important to the ocean gallons of water per day! phytoplankton and smaller and to the whole planet! zooplankton.

I am eaten! I eat… I eat… I eat… Sea Lettuce (Ulva sp.) Red Rock Giant Pacific Young Salmon Sea lettuce is an edible ( productus) ( dofleini) In general, young salmon macroscopic which The Red Rock Crabs are The eat insects, invertebrates attaches to substrate with a scavengers; which eat worms, hunts crabs, clams and and plankton. disc holdfast. clams, mussels, other crabs, mussels. and many other invertebrates.

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gardensalishsea.org 5th Grade All rights reserved © Garden of the Salish Sea Curriculum 2019 Eelgrass Orca ( marina) (Orcinus orca) (Phoca vitulina) (Metacarcinus magister) Eelgrass has long leaves that Orcas love to eat salmon, Harbor seals eat mostly Dungeness crabs eat clams, can reach over three feet long! especially Chinook! They also such as salmon and herring, nudibranchs, other This plant is both a food eat other fish, octopus, , occasionally eating , and small fish. source and acts as for sea birds, and seals. crabs, mollusks, and squid. many .

I am eaten! I eat… I eat… I eat… Bull kelp Blue Ochre Sea star Purple Sea Urchin (Nereocystis luetkeana) ( edulis) (Pisaster ochraceus) (Strongylocentrotus Kelp has holdfasts which allow Mussels are filter feeders that Sea stars feed on mussels, purpuratus) it to grow on rocks to form eat phytoplankton out of the , , snails, Urchins eat algae such as thick beds which are often water. , echinoids, and kelp, rockweed, and sea called kelp forests. even decapod crustacea. lettuce, and chitons.

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gardensalishsea.org 5th Grade All rights reserved © Garden of the Salish Sea Curriculum 2019 Rockweed Surf Smelt Giant Green Anemone Common Acorn (Fucus gardneri) (Hypomesus pretiosus) (Anthopleura (Balanus glandula) Rockweed is a type of brown Surf smelt are small forage xanthogrammica) Barnacles use their algae has air bubbles in the fish that eat polychaete The anemone feeds on sea modified legs to grab food leaves which help it float with worms, larval fish and urchins, small fish, crabs, suspended in the water the . , but they primarily and detached mussels. column, which is feed on small crustaceans. commonly phytoplankton and zooplankton.

I am eaten! I eat… I eat… I eat… Northern Feather-Duster Western Manila Sockeye Salmon Worm (Larus occidentalis) ( philippinarum) (Oncorhynchus nerka) (Eudistylia vancouveri) The Western Gull eats fish, Manila clams were This sockeye salmon is This polychaete worm eats invertebrates like , squid introduced to the Salish Sea ready to . It eats phytoplankton and and jellyfish. On land they from . Clams are filter smaller fish, shrimp, and zooplankton. feed on seal and sea lion feeders who rely on eels. carcasses, as well as cockles, plankton for food. , limpets and snails.

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gardensalishsea.org 5th Grade All rights reserved © Garden of the Salish Sea Curriculum 2019 Wolf Eel Ling Cod Pacific Spot Shrimp (Anarrhichthys ocellatus) (Ophiodon elongatus) (Squalus suckleyi) (Pandalus platyceros) Wolf eels are not true eels, but The long cod is a large fish (up This shark usually eats This is the largest shrimp are wolffish that eat to 130 pounds) that eats mollusks or crustaceans that lives in the Puget crustaceans, sea urchins, invertebrates such as such as octopus, squid, krill, Sound. It eats zooplankton, mussels, clams and some and fish such as and shrimp. They also eat small fish, and algae. , crushing them with its herring, salmon, Pacific hake, other small sharks and fish. strong jaws. and rockfish.

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Black Leather Olympia Oyster Shag Rug Nudibranch (Katharina tunicate) ( littorea) () (Aeolidia papillosa) Chitons are grazers that This is a grazer that eats Olympia oysters are filter This nudibranch feeds on consume several species of algae such as kelp, rockweed, feeders who rely on anemones. brown and red algae including eelgrass and sea lettuce. plankton for food. Olympia kelps, sea lettuce, and oysters are the only native encrusting . They're oyster in . also known to eat sponges, tiny barnacles, and worms.

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