Blob Fish Ecosystem Lab Report

• INTRODUCTION

• Hook: Imagine a place with no light, so much pressure your skull is caving in, all your bones are being crushed, and fish are staring at you as you scream in pain. This is what it is like at the bottom of the Pelagic zone, where tunas, jellyfish, sharks, and blob fish need to adapt to survive these conditions in their ecosystem.

• Background Knowledge:

• Definition of ecosystem: An ecosystem is a place where all the living and nonliving things are living in a specific environment and interact with each other.

• Info on zone: The Pelagic zone is the largest ocean zone, but it does not hold the most types of ocean creatures.

• Info on zone: The Pelagic zone is also known as the “Open Ocean” as it is located between two continental shelves, in the middle of the ocean.

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• Main Point #3 - name/identify the adaptation: the last adaptation of the blob fish is its gelatinous skin.

• Prove It (text evidence…) - describe the adaptation: As stated by nmfs.noaa.gov,” Blob fish has gelatinous skin and its density is slightly lighter than water’s density, making them able to float around in the deep sea instead of spending their energy for swimming.”

• Prove It/Elaborate it (This helps the...because) - explain now the adaptation helps the animal survive: This adaptation helps the blob fish survive by both allowing it to withstand even higher pressures than normal for fish that live at the same depth as the blob fish, and allow it to conserve energy for hunting, instead of spending it for swimming.

1. BODY PARAGRAPH - ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS

• Topic Sentence: There are some environmental threats causing for the blob fish, like pollution, overfishing, and climate