Texas Aquatic Science Chapter 5 Video Introduction

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Aquatic habitats are aquatic communities in which complex interactions take place among populations and individual organisms as they compete for limited resources in an interdependent web of relationships. What do you need to survive? You need air to breathe, clean water to drink, food to eat, and shelter to protect you from the elements. These are basic survival needs for humans. For aquatic organisms to survive, they must be able to meet all of their survival needs just as you do.– Texas Aquatic Science Chapter 5: From Sun to Sunfish

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Texas Aquatic Science is a cooperative education project sponsored by Texas Parks and Wildlife, The Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, and The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University. Additional project support came from the Ewing Halsell Foundation and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Sport Fish Restoration Program. Rudolph Rosen, Ph.D. wrote and edited the Texas Aquatic Science textbook. Videos were produced by Randall Maxwell. Sandra Johnson, Ph.D. served as educational consultant and authored the accompanying Teacher’s Guide.