Organisms and Their Environments
Click the Link below to play "Build the Food Chain Game!"
http://www.ecokids.ca/pub/eco_info/topics/frogs/chain_reaction/play_chainreaction.cfm
http://www.ecokids.ca/pub/eco_info/topics/frogs/chain_reaction/play_chainreaction.cfm
What ARE Food Chains, Food Webs and Energy Pyramids?
Check out the link below to see!
http://www.vtaide.com/png/foodchains.htm
Check out the link below to see!
http://www.vtaide.com/png/foodchains.htm
In-Class Activities
- Chapter 12.1 Key Chart (April 9-10)
- Create a Flowchart or Concept Map of the Energy Roles in an Environment (example flowchart is below)
- producer
- consumer
- herbivore
- carnivore
- scavenger
- omnivore
- decomposer
Flowchart or Concept Map Example
3. Create a Food Web using these organisms
Food Web Example
Biomes
Ecology Test Study Guide
- The difference between biotic and abiotic factors and examples of each.
- The difference between immigration and emigration and examples
- Definition of vocab from Chapter 12.1: habitat, species, population, community, ecosystem
- Examples of the relationships among organisms: predation, commensalism, parasitism, mutualism, competition
- Different types of energy roles organisms can have in an ecosystem: herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, scavenger, decomposer, producer, etc.
- What is the definition of a limiting factor? What are some examples?
- Difference between 1st, 2nd and 3rd level consumers
- Difference between a food web and a food chain
- You will need to identify energy roles of certain organisms
- You will need to draw a food web or food chain