4th GRADE Things to do GALLERY Reef Level 1 Level Level 2 Level CHANGING EXHIBIT Tropical Tunnel Tropical GALLERY F I E L D T R I P Tropical CHANGING EXHIBIT Tropical Tunnel Tropical Main Entrance Live Coral Live Tropical Tunnel Tropical TROPICAL PACIFIC GALLERY PACIFIC TROPICAL Main Entrance TROPICAL PACIFIC GALLERY PACIFIC TROPICAL Tropical Preview Tropical CHAPERONE …at the Aquarium Chaperones: Use this guide to move your group through the Gift Store Gift Store • Touch a shark Aquarium’s galleries. The background information, GUIDEguided questions, and activities will keep your • See a show students engaged and actively learning. Sea Otters Honda Theater Sea Otter Honda Theater Sea Otter • Visit a Discovery Lab • Ask questions Surge Channel Surge • Have fun! Kelp NORTHERN PACIFIC GALLERY PACIFIC NORTHERN NORTHERN PACIFIC GALLERY PACIFIC NORTHERN Amber Forest Pool Blue Cavern Blue Cavern Cafe Ray Scuba Blue Ray Pool Cavern Cafe Scuba Ray Pool SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA/BAJA GALLERY SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA/BAJA SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA/BAJA GALLERY SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA/BAJA Seals & Sea Lions Seals & Sea Lions Seals & Sea Lions …back at school Seals & Sea Lions • Write or draw about your trip to the Aquarium Ecosystems • Consider a classroom animal adoption Kelp vs. Coral • Visit aquariumofpacific.org/teachers Welcome to the Kelp Forest and Coral Reef! Shark Lagoon • Keep learning more These unique ecosystems each have producers, Forest like plants and kelp, which take energy from the Lorikeet Shark sun to make their own food, and consumers, Lagoon Shark Lagoon Forest which are incredible animals that rely on producers Lorikeet Blue Cavern, Amber Forest, Kelp Camouflage, Camouflage, Kelp Amber Forest, Blue Cavern, Channel, Sea Surge Otters Ray Pool, and other consumers for food. Enjoy your Coral, Live Shark Lagoon, Preview, Tropical Reef Tropical Tunnel, Tropical — — exploration of these beautiful and very different marine ecosystems. Can you discover how they are the same and how they are different? Reef Coral Forest Kelp Where are they? are Where This map shows the locations This map shows can you where exhibits of throughout and coral see kelp the Aquarium. aquariumofpacific.org 100 Aquarium Way, Long Beach, CA 90802 Key: Exhibit Corals are animals! Coral reef producers are less visible than producers in the kelp Each individual There are many producers in the kelp forest. Some are large like forest. Most algae live hidden inside the coral. The corals rely on is called a polyp. the giant kelp, and some are small plankton, or drifters, in the those small algae for food, and many fish do too. These algae, water. Many consumers, like urchins, snails, and abalone, eat the called zooxanthellae, are the base of the coral reef food web. kelp. Otters are known to eat urchins, but can also eat mussels, crabs, sea stars, and octopus. The many organisms in the Guiding questions: food web are all needed to keep the environment healthy. The Live Coral exhibit is much brighter than the other exhibits. Why? Why do corals need such clear water? Guiding questions: Many animals Where in the world can we find coral reefs? What does kelp need to grow? camouflage Have you ever been to the kelp forest? themselves in the Activities for students: Have you seen kelp washed up on the beach? kelp for protection from predators. Feel the water at Shark Lagoon and the Ray Pool. Which one would have a coral reef? Activities for students: Create a coral reef food web using animals Find three animals that camouflage in the kelp. in the Tropical Gallery. Create a kelp forest food web using animals in the Southern California Gallery. Coral reefs are diverse and delicate environments that STIPE are threatened by even The bright colors of CANOPY the slightest temperature coral reefs come from changes or human touch. the algae living inside the animals’ tissue. BLADE Shovelnose guitarfish are a perfect color to Giant kelp grows 2-3 ft camouflage in MIDWATER a day and up to 100 ft the sand! PNEUMATOCYST Sea otters keep urchin HOLDFAST populations HOLDFAST from eating all the kelp. Giant kelp can grow two to three feet a day and as tall as 100 feet..