1. Rocky Shore Habitats
Annie Russell

2. School of Marine Science and Technology

3. Aims for today
What are the factors that affect the distribution of an organism on the rocky shore?
How have the organisms become adapted to the rocky shore?
From your observations of the organisms on the rocky shore give specific examples of how the organisms observed have adapted to survive the rocky shore environment.

4. Marine habitats Polar oceans Coral reef Rocky Shores Deep sea oceans
Open oceans

5. How does all this affect the Rocky shore at cullercoats?

6. Rocky Shore Habitat
What are the factors that affect the distribution of an organism on the rocky shore?
What is the major event on rocky shore every day? Ie. The rise and fall of the tide…picture of a spot a high water and low water

7. Distinguish between Biotic and Abiotic factors.
The biotic factors are the influences that result from the activities of living organisms in the community eg. competition
Abiotic (physical factors) are the influences of the
non-living part of the community e.g.. Climate