- The food chain starts with the
grasses in the salt marsh. The grass dies and fall into
the water. When it falls into the water and sinks to the bottom
it becomes "detritis" this is the stinky black mud that makes
the bed of the salt marsh. You can see and smell this detritis
when the tide is low.
- The next step is the small
animals that nibble the detritis such as grass shrimp or comb
jelly fish, these are the jelly fish that glow in the water at
night.
- The 3rd level is the animals that
eat shrimp and jellyfish, etc. Things like crabs and fish or
birds eat these smaller animals.
- What kind of animals would eat
crabs, fish or birds? This is the next level.
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