Ecosystems

Please study the vocabulary words nightly.

• Students will describe the roles of organisms and the flow of energy within an ecosystem

• Students will identify factors that affect the survival or extinction of organisms such as adaptation, variation of behaviors (hibernation), and external features (camouflage and protection).

Games to play:

• Ecosystem

Videos to watch

• StudyJams - Ecosystems

• Brainpop: Ecosystems username ga636s(lunch#) and pw: s(lunch#)

Individual, Populations, and Community

• I can explain how living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem interact.

• I can differentiate between populations and communities.

• I can explain how biotic and abiotic factors affect ecosystems.

Producers, Consumers and Decomposers

• Identify the roles of producers, consumers, and decomposers in a community.

I can explain how living things use the energy from sunlight.

I can explain how living things get energy from other living things.

I can explain how consumers depend on other living things.

• Predict how changes in the environment would affect a community (ecosystem) of organisms.

• Predict effects on a population if some of the plants or animals in the community are scarce or if there are too many.

• I can demonstrate how energy moves through food chains and food webs.

• I can describe how climate influences an ecosystem.

• Demonstrate the flow of energy through a food web/food chain beginning with sunlight and including producers, consumers, and decomposers.