Whats the Vital Commodity

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Whats the Vital Commodity!?
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General Idea

• You assume the role of an organism in a marsh
  ecosystem
• You interact with other organisms based on
  feeding relationships (i.e. the food web)
• Depending on who eats whom, you gain or lose the
  vital commodity

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RULE SUMMARY

• You eat the organism you encounter
• Take five beans from them
• Put 2 of the 5 in the LOSSES box
• You are eaten
• Give your predator 5 beans
• You are plankton
• Remove 10 beans after each encounter from the
  SUPPLY box
• Then put 1 bean in the LOSSES box
• You cant eat them and they cant eat you
• Both put 1 bean in the LOSSES box
• You lose all your beans
• Youre out!!

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What eats what?

• Crocodile
• Eats Heron
• Eaten by nothing
• Heron
• Eats Mullet and Shrimp
• Eaten by Crocodile

• Shrimp
• Eats Plankton
• Eaten by Heron
• Mullet
• Eats Plankton and Shrimp
• Eaten by Heron
• Plankton
• Eats nothing
• Eaten by Mullet and Shrimp

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