The fish and the marine snow

School Story Curriculum

Subject: Ecology

Topic: Marine Snow

Once an alligator was chasing a fish in the ocean and the fish to escape the alligator hid in the depth of the oceans. In fact, it reached ocean bed. In the ocean bed it found the nutrient rich area filled with marine snow. This area was essential for the ocean ecology and the food web. The food web was made rich in nutrients by the marine snow which basically consisted of waste and remains of dead organisms that had sunk to the bottom of the ocean. The fish hid in the marine snow till the alligator got bored and swam to shallower waters.