Objectives
- Students will explore a model to understand how matter and energy are transferred among producers, consumers, and decomposers in an ecosystem.
- Students will explore how the number of organisms in different trophic levels affects the stability of an ecosystem.
Vocabulary
- producer
- consumer
- secondary consumer
- tertiary consumer
- population
- community
- trophic level
- ecosystem
- predator
- prey
About the Lesson
In this lesson, students will use a simulation to explore the transfer of matter and energy among producers, consumers, and decomposers in an ecosystem.
As a result, students will:
- Describe how energy is transferred through an ecosystem.
- Explain how organisms depend on one another to create a balanced ecosystem.
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