Charlie’s Shark Tank Post

Hi everyone,

In science we are doing a simulation with sharks, minnows, and seaweed. We went outside and since there are 20 people in my class 14 of us were seaweed, 5 were minnows and 1 person was the shark. Minnows had to eat 1 seaweed to survive. Sharks had to eat 2 minnows to survive. Seaweeds could not move so they just had to stay alive. I realized that the shark stayed the same in every round and at one point died because the minnows were always hiding in there cave that the shark didn’t fit inside of. Then there was more and more seaweeds because when a seaweed stays alive it also reproduces every round. finally the seaweed died because the the minnows couldn’t be eaten by anything. Since the sharks and seaweed died the minnows had nothing to eat so they would have died too. I think this teaches us that it’s better to have a bigger population than a smaller population that has an advantage in there surroundings.