Activity Description:
Seamounts provide a hard substrate upon which organisms like deep-sea corals and sponges can settle and grow, building an ecosystem suitable for many other species. In this lesson, students explore how deep-sea corals and sponges act as foundation species, as observed on seamounts. While focusing on the Driving Question: How can we model the physical and biological complexity of deep-sea ecosystems? students build a model of an increasingly complex community.

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