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Students 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 consumers, and tertiary consumers.

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ecosystems, food webs, trophic levels

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ecosystem, food web, trophic levels, science
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Grade
7th - 8th
Subjects
Science
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Resource Type
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For Teacher Use
Duration
1 hr
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Skills Practice
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