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Energy Flow and Nutrient Cycling in Autotrophs and Heterotrophs
The biosphere is an extremely dynamic system, with energy flowing from one group of organism to another at all times. How does this flow operate? How do nutrients cycle? What is biomass? What are gross and net primary productivity? Let's...
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Creating a Water Ecosystem
Dr. Forester creates a water ecosystem and identifies the roles of consumer, producer, and decomposer in the water ecosystem.
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Coprophagia Mania!
Feces is really important for some animals. It can help them survive in their environment, heal sickness, and gives some young a good start in life!
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Understanding Movement of Matter through the Ecosystem
In this video, the teacher explains how matter is constantly recycled in ecosystems. She shows examples of how matter moves from plants to animals, and from one organism to another through consumption. She also discusses the role of...
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Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers
Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers explains the roles of producers, consumers, and decomposers within an ecosystem.
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Animal Essential Functions
This live-action video program is about the term "animal essential functions". The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the term "animal essential functions" through use of video...
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Decomposition
Process and steps of decomposition in an ecosystem. Advantages and factors affecting decomposition.
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Decomposer
This live-action video program is about the word decomposer. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word decomposer through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and...
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Decomposition and its Implications in Composting, Food Preservation, and Biogas Production
This is a video discussing decomposition, the process by which organisms break down waste material and dead plant and animal material into simpler substances, which can then be recycled back into the ecosystem to be used by other...
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Understanding Producers and the Food Chain
This video is an educational program that teaches about producers in the ecosystem. The video also covers the process of photosynthesis that plants use to produce glucose, and it introduces the concept of a food chain to explain how...
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Nitrogen Cycle
This live-action video program is about the term nitrogen cycle. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the term nitrogen cycle through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and...
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What Are Trophic Levels?
How do we find out the position that an organism occupies in a food chain? The different feeding positions in a food chain or web are called trophic levels. All food chains and webs have at least two trophic levels, starting at level one...
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Food Chain
This live-action video program is about the term food chain. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the term food chain through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and...
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Consumer
This live-action video program is about the word consumer. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word consumer through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and colorful,...
Journey to the Microcosmos
The Microscopic Circle of Life
Life is chemistry. From diatom to Diana, life is not a magical imbued trait, is a process of the physics of our universe. The precise and convoluted chemistry of life requires specific physical and chemical situations. And this planet...
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Food Chains: Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers
It is fascinating to explore the energy relationships between living things. This exciting video investigates the process of living things producing energy, consuming it, and breaking it down. Food chains and food webs visually...
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Food Chain
In this video, we are going to look at a food chain and the different roles within that. So we will discover exactly what each of these words mean: food web, food chain, trophic level, producer, consumer, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore,...
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What is the Food Chain?
This live-action video program is about the term food chain. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the term food chain through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and...
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Ecosystems Review
This video summarizes the topics covered in the Ecosystems series. This video explores the features of ecosystems, including abiotic and biotic components and their interactions with the physical environment. The speaker also discusses...
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Viruses and Monerans: Bacterial Shapes and Activities
Practical examples show how viruses and bacteria are both beneficial and harmful to humans. Animations describe the structure of a virus, and explain how they reproduce and cause disease. Microscopic images illustrate different types and...
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Roles in Ecosystems
This video explains the different types of living things found in ecosystems, focusing on plants and their role as producers of energy through photosynthesis. It also introduces the concepts of consumers and decomposers, and how they...
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Roles in Ecosystems
The video explains the different types of living things found in ecosystems, including plants, animals, and decomposers. The video provides examples of each type of organism and their role in the ecosystem. Ecosystem Dynamics part 4/10
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Energy in Ecosystems
The video discusses the concept of energy flow in an ecosystem, highlighting the complex relationships between producers, consumers, and decomposers. A simplified diagram of a forest ecosystem is shown, illustrating the...