THE FRAGILE TIDE POOL Home to Various Plants and Animals Be Safe! It can be dangerous out here

Plants and Animals Depend on Each Other You can help protect us too!

Tidepools provide homes to loads of animals and plants. Can you identify some of them? In this picture I can see lots of sea urchins, an anemone, and even a bat star. If you look hard enough, sometimes you can see crabs and octopus hanging in tide pools. Try taking pictures of what you see and practice identifying them when you get home!

Hi, I’m a Pacific Crab, but you can call me Pat. I’d like to tell you about my home, the tide pool!

You know how you have a family that you depend on? Well in the tide pool we depend on all the other plants and animals. Can you spot the old snail shell Mr. Hermit Crab lives in? If we were taken out of our tide pool we would not survive very long.

A delicately balanced environment that must be respected and protected

Tide pools have lots of yummy algae and kelp, but sometimes that can make them slippery for humans. Also, some animals like sea urchins and other crabs can hurt you if you touch them. If you don’t touch them, they can’t hurt you!

You should always remember that you are bigger and stronger than the animals, so you can hurt them if you aren’t careful. Also, trash and debris that you leave behind can be seriously hurt or kill the animals here. The best idea is to only leave footprints!

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