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**SCIENCE Project**

Plants found in Altona Coastal Park: || Animals found in Altona Coastal Park: || || || || || ||
 * NAME OF PLANT || WHAT IT EATS || WHAT EATS IT || PICTURE ||
 * Shrubby Glasswort ( Tecticornia Arbuscula) || It is a producer || Caterpillars, some birds and ants || [[image:94502194 caption="180px-Tecticornia_arbuscula_---_shrubby_glasswort.jpg"]] ||
 * White Mangrove || It is a producer || Some birds, fish, water snails and caterpillars ||
 * NAME OF ANIMAL || WHAT IT EATS || WHAT EATS IT || HERBIVORE, CARNIVORE OR OMNIVORE? || PICTURE ||
 * Orange-bellied Parrot || Seeds and berries from shrubs and trees || Feral cats, foxes, tiger snake || herbivore ||
 * Tiger snake || Birds, mice, rats, small animals || Vultures, hawks, eagles, kytes and falcons || carnivore ||
 * Pelicans || Fish, amphibians and small birds || Feral cats, foxes || carnivore ||
 * Blue Wrens || Ants, grasshoppers, flies, seeds, flowers, fruit || Feral cats, foxes, tiger snake, pelicans || omnivore ||
 * Ants || Fungus, leaves, seeds, food scraps || Birds, orange-bellied parrot || herbivore ||
 * Grey Teal || Algae, water plants (White Mangrove), food scraps || Tiger snake, feral cats, foxes || herbivore ||
 * Ibis || Crustaceans ( insects) || Feral cats, foxes || omnivore || [[image:94975436 caption="ibis.jpg"]] ||

Questions A) Identify all consumers as either first, second or third order Grey teal – first order consumer Orange-bellied parrot – first order consumer Ants – first order consumer Fish – first order consumer Blue wrens – second order consumer Ibis – second order consumer Tiger snake – third order consumer Pelican – third order consumer

 b)Are any of your organisms omnivores, herbivores and carnivores?  OMNIVORES: blue wrens, ibis HERBIVORES: orange-bellied parrot, ants, grey teal CARNIVORES: tiger snakes, pelicans

C) Which organisms are predators?   Blue wrens, ibis, tiger snakes and pelicans.

D) Which organisms are prey?   Grey teal, orange-bellied parrot, ants and fish.

E) What is an introduced species? Are there any in your ecosystem?   An introduced species is a species that has been introduced to a certain area and is not native to that particular area.

**Conclusion:**
==In this conclusion to this report i have discovered that altona is very diverser i have learnt about the ecosystem and able to contrust foos weds and chains and finding the result. i enjoy doing this toipv because i learnt alots of stuffs that i never learnt before its little of a challenging and it makes me work hard to finsh on time some of the question was really hard to understand i ask my group memembers to help me when i don;t understand the question and i was able to complete the tasks in the end .==

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