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Ninth graders complete a unit of lessons on ecosystems, organism interactions, and energy flow. They create a key for known species of fish, diagram the movement of energy through an ecosystem, and create and present food chains and food webs.

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energy flow, energy, ecology, ecosystems, food chains

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ecology, ecosystems, energy flow, food chains, st. lawrence river, science
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9th
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Science
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5 days
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