Day 9 (2/15)
Energy Pyramid Direct Reading.
Energy Pyramid Direct Reading.
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Ecology Review
#15 Energy Pyramid Direct Reading
#15 Energy Pyramid Direct Reading
Daily Warm-Up
Check out this bird and answer the questions on the right. Be ready with an answer...
Energy Pyramid Reading
Primary Producers Video
Check out this video that shows how Primary Producers (phytoplankton) are the start of all the Food Webs in the ocean.
Take a Tour of Biomes
Create Food Webs and Energy Pyramids
- Use Google Earth to explore the Earth's biomes.
- As a class name a biome or major habitat type (desert, tundra, tropical forest, etc.)
- Zoom in slowly from space and review how and why the Earth has different climates.
- Review Abiotic Factors - List the 4 on board and + / - next to them according to how students would rate their influence on a particular biome.
- As a class come up with and then map out the various producers and consumers into a Food Web, then an Energy Pyramid.
- Place the abiotic factors next to the Energy Pyramid to indicate how they might limit the producers and thus the entire chain of consumers that follow.
READ UP - additional material...
Food Webs - Mr. Sapora's Online Ecology textbook - Section 6.
ENERGY - Mr. Sapora's Online Ecology textbook - Section 7.
Energy Pyramids - Mr. Sapora's Online Ecology textbook - Section 8.
ENERGY - Mr. Sapora's Online Ecology textbook - Section 7.
Energy Pyramids - Mr. Sapora's Online Ecology textbook - Section 8.
Links and Additional Resources:
Arctic Ocean Food Web - interactive activity.
BBC - seabird colony and sea eagle video.
BBC - Antarctic marine ecosystem - feeding on dead seal.
Footprint Network - calculate how much energy and resources we as humans use on a daily basis.
BBC - seabird colony and sea eagle video.
BBC - Antarctic marine ecosystem - feeding on dead seal.
Footprint Network - calculate how much energy and resources we as humans use on a daily basis.
Standards
2009 Oregon State Science Standards
6.2 The related parts within a system interact and change.
6.2L.2 Explain how individual organisms and populations in an ecosystem interact and how changes in populations are related to resources.
6.2L.2.1 Organisms interact as populations.
6.2L.2.2 Different populations interact as communities.
6.2L.2.3 Communities interact with the environment as ecosystems.
7.2 The components and processes within a system interact.
7.2L.2 Explain the processes by which plants and animals obtain energy and materials
for growth and metabolism.
7.2L.2.1 Cellular respiration
7.2L.2.3 Photosynthesis
7.2L.2.4 Energy conversion in plant cells
Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) (based on May, 2012 draft)
MS.LS-MEOE Matter and Energy in Organisms and Ecosystems.
LS1.C: Organization for Matter and Energy Flow in Organisms.
LS2.B: Cycle of Matter and Energy Transfer in Ecosystems.
MS.LS-IRE Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems.
LS2.A: Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems.
6.2 The related parts within a system interact and change.
6.2L.2 Explain how individual organisms and populations in an ecosystem interact and how changes in populations are related to resources.
6.2L.2.1 Organisms interact as populations.
6.2L.2.2 Different populations interact as communities.
6.2L.2.3 Communities interact with the environment as ecosystems.
7.2 The components and processes within a system interact.
7.2L.2 Explain the processes by which plants and animals obtain energy and materials
for growth and metabolism.
7.2L.2.1 Cellular respiration
7.2L.2.3 Photosynthesis
7.2L.2.4 Energy conversion in plant cells
Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) (based on May, 2012 draft)
MS.LS-MEOE Matter and Energy in Organisms and Ecosystems.
LS1.C: Organization for Matter and Energy Flow in Organisms.
LS2.B: Cycle of Matter and Energy Transfer in Ecosystems.
MS.LS-IRE Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems.
LS2.A: Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems.