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\nBreaking Down Ecosystems\n

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\nEcosystems are crucial in allowing for the flow of energy. In this collection, learners look at how energy flows from one organism to another through food chains and food webs. With videos, interactives, and worksheets, the material in...\n
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\nEnergy Transfer in Trophic Levels\n

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\nLearn more about food chains, the food web, and the concepts relating to them. It focuses on consumers, producers, decomposers, energy transfer, and energy loss across trophic levels.\n
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\nDynamics of Ecosystems\n

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\nA set of guided notes walks your biology or environmental studies learners through the dynamics of ecosystems. They write short answers to questions about the energy budget, food webs, trophic levels, and biogeochemical cycles. One way...\n
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\nTell Me Why - Environment and Ecosystems\n

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\nAll of the species in our world are part of what is called a trophic level. Basically, it determines an organism's position in the food chain. Introduce your learners to the basic levels and have them identify more organisms that could...\n
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\nEnergy Flow Through Ecosystems\n

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\nMiddle or high school environmental studies classes will learn much from this presentation on energy in ecosystems. It covers the foundational topics of trophic levels, food webs, and nutrient cycles using informational text and...\n
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\nTrophic Pyramids and Levels\n

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\nThe bulk of this lesson involves the construction of both an aquatic and a terrestrial ecosystem in which to observe trophic relationships. Detailed directions are provided, as well as discussion questions, and assessment activities....\n
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\nTrophic Ecology of Humans\n

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\nstudents analyze the place of humans among the tropic levels by observing what we eat. They calculate the caloric content of several foods commonly eaten by humans and calculate the total energy cost to grow, process, transport, store...\n
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\nCommunity Ecology\n

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\nChart ecological community interactions and answer questions about niche, defenses, trophic structure, and succession. This community ecology worksheet provides a general overview of the interactions that occur among organisms that share...\n
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\nFood Webs, Energy Flow, Carbon Cycle, and Trophic Pyramids\n

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\nThe reintroduction of a species to an area doesn't always go as expected. Scholars learn about the reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone National Park with a video, reading, and discussion questions. They complete a hands-on activity...\n
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\nForest Ecosystem\n

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\nYoung scholars become familiar with the temperate rainforest.  In this forest ecosystem instructional activity, students identify the producers, consumers and decomposers in the forest ecosystem.  Young scholars sort cards and...\n
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\nEcology\n

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\nPsychologists study human relationships while ecologist study relationships between organisms in the environment. An introduction to ecology and the related vocabulary benefits scholars as they progress through the presentation and...\n
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\nLesson 4: Gorongosa's Food Webs\n

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\nWho eats who in the savannas of Africa? Explore trophic levels with part four of an eight-part series of lessons focused around Gorongosa National Park. After young explorers identify animals using trailcam images, they construct a food...\n
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\nBiomagnification and the Trouble with Toxins\n

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\nOur relationship with toxins is, well, a little toxic. Explore how harmful substances work their way throughout the environment with a video from an expansive biology playlist. Topics include DDT and mercury, trophic levels, and water...\n
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\nRegents High School Examination: Living Environment 2010\n

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\nThis exam covers every topic in a typical first-year biology course. A wide variety of question styles gives high schoolers every opportunity to show what they know. Why start from scratch when a comprehensive final exam is easily...\n
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\nConstruction of Food Chains and Tracing Energy Changes\n

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\nIf you need a few basic activities for teaching food chains to your emerging ecologists, here they are. Three sheets of organism cards are included for learners to cut out and arrange according to trophic relationships. To make the most...\n
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\nModeling Trophic Cascades\n

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\nIn the ecological game of who eats who, one small change can have a big impact! Individuals create food chains in an array of ecosystems, then determine what happens to organisms in the chain when one organism changes its feeding...\n
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\nit's Lonely At The Top\n

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\nStudents explore the differnences between food producers in food webs and food consumers in food chains. Behavioral choices of primary and secondary consumers such as herbivores, vegetarians, carnivors, and omnivors are analyzed.\n
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\nPterosaurs: The Card Game\n

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\nPiecing together the past is a challenging endeavor. Learners get a taste of that challenge as they play a game that incorporates several components such as trophic levels, geological time periods, and catastrophic events. Pairs work to...\n
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\nTrophic Ecology of Humans\n

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\nStudents analyze the trophic level of humans by first calculating the kilocalories in own their lunch. They then calulate the kilocalories in a wide variety of foods found in grocery stores and compare the kilocalories needed to acquire...\n
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\nLessons: Food Web\n

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\nStudents use an interactive web-based food web game to gain familiarity with tropic levels and interactions. They already understand that in an ecosystem there are four basic tropic levels: producers, primary consumers, secondary...\n
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\nFood Webs\n

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\nStudents recognize interdependence in a food web by using yarn and notecards to create a food web and discussing what would happen if one of the organisms from a certain trophic level is removed.\n
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\nHow Does Energy Cycle in Ecosystems?\n

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\nIn this energy cycle worksheet, students will write in examples for each trophic level in an energy cycle: top, middle, and lowest levels.\n
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\nEcological Pyramids\n

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\nStudents apply the ecological pyramids of numbers and biomass with an activity using topographic maps. In this trophic level lesson, students work in groups using a topographic map to determine the number of organisms that can live in an...\n
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\nHeat 1\n

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\nIn this heat worksheet, students determine the heat gained or lost when matter changes phases. Students review the energy flow through ecosystems by comparing trophic levels and food webs. This worksheet has 10 fill in the blank, 5 short...\n
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