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__ Populations and Ecosystems __ __ Investigation 3 Mini Ecosystems __

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=**HOMEWORK:**= =**Pop & Eco Investigations 3 & 4 Quizlet**=



Modified homework for those who are qualified:


 * By completing this unit, students will… **

__ Know __ Aquatic, terrestrial, detritus, consumer, producer, decomposer, food chain, food web, photosynthesis

__ Understand __


 * An ecosystem is a web of interactions and relationships among the organisms and abiotic factors in an area.
 * Scale models of ecosystem can be used to make generalizations about larger ecosystems.

__ Be able to… __.
 * Assemble abiotic elements of aquatic and terrestrial mini ecosystems.
 * Introduce organisms into aquatic and terrestrial mini ecosystems.
 * Use a scientific log to record interactions and changes in mini ecosystems over time.
 * Describe how organisms depend on abiotic elements in their ecosystem.

__** LESSON 1 **__

**__EQ:__ How can we determine the abiotic needs of organisms in an ecosystem? **

 * __Lab Book:__** Page 15
 * __FOSS Text__**: Pages 64-68

Making An Aquatic Biosphere video

Making A Terrestrial Mini Ecosystem video

Abiotic Factors Video

How Biotic and Abiotic Factors Make an Ecosystem video

__** LESSON 2 **__

**__EQ:__ What can we learn about living organisms in our mini ecosystems? **

 * __Lab Book:__** Pages 15 -17
 * __FOSS Text__**: Pages 64-68

Bizzare Creature Found In Sewer! video

Tubifex Worms On A Plate video

Tubifex Worms In Nature video

Scuds In The Wild video

Raising SCUDS video

Isopods/Pill Bugs video

Moby Worm! video

Amazing Earthworms video

Raising Earthworms video

How To Breed Guppies video

__** LESSON 3 **__

**__EQ:__ How can we observe ecosystems change over time? **

 * __Lab Book:__** Pages 16 -17
 * __FOSS Text__**: Pages 8-13

Biomes by FOSS

Biosphere 2 Video NYT

Biosphere 2 Video TED

Biosphere 2 University of Arizona

Biosphere 2 (Official site)

=**Mini- Ecosystem Observations**=

You will be making regular quantitative and qualitative observations of your mini-ecosystems to determine their abiotic and biotic properties.
 * 1) Carefully study the pictures of the probes below.
 * 2) View the video --> Video on how to use the probe.
 * 3) You may ONLY put the metal portion in the the probes in the soil or water. The instrument panel MUST NOT GET WET!
 * 4) Wipe all probes dry before returning them.

=2017 Terrarium Data Entry Form=

=2017 Terrarium Data Table=

2016 Terrarium Data Table
=2017 Aquarium Data Entry Form= =**2017 Aquarium Data Table**=

2016 Aquarium Data Table
2017 Milkweed Bug Observation Log

2017 Milkweed Bug Observation Data Table

2016 Milkweed Bug Observation Data Table

2015 Milkweed Bug Observation Data Table

Please check out the video below on how to sort data on Google Spreadsheet below. Practice sorting your data for the milkweed bug table by table, period, etc. How to sort your data in Google Spreadsheet

__ Populations and Ecosystems __ __ Investigation 4 Mono Lake & Food Webs __


 * By completing this unit, students will… **

__ Terms: __ Food web, food chain, producers, consumers (primary, secondary, tertiary), decomposers, trophic levels, Photosynthesis, energy, biomass, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, detritus

__ It’s important to understand that… __


 * The dynamics of a simple ecosystem such as the alkaline lake ecosystem of Mono Lake.
 * A food chain is a sequence of organisms that eat one another.
 * All the feeding relationships in an ecosystem is called a food web.

Students will be able to….
 * Research the functional roles of the 12 organisms in the Mono Lake ecosystem.
 * Diagram a food web using arrow to show what eats what.
 * Explain the functional roles and feeding relationships that constitutes a food web.

__** LESSON 1 **__

**__EQ:__ What are the biotic and abiotic factors that influence the Mono Lake Ecosystem? **

 * __Lab Book:__** Page 19
 * __FOSS Text__**: Pages 25-29 //"Mono Lake in the Spotlight"//

MONO LAKE ON GOOGLE MAPS media type="custom" key="27315318" =** Ice and Fire - Mono Lake Video Use this video to answer lab book questions on page 19. (Version 2) **=

Lessons From Mono Lake Video

Mono Lake Life Video

Mono Lake Canoe Tour

Mono Lake from FOSS

__** LESSON 2 **__

**__EQ:__ What are the parts of a food web and what do they mean? **

 * __Lab Book:__** Page 21
 * __FOSS Text__**: Pages 19-21

Food Chains, Webs, & Decomposers

Cool Food Web Game

Build a food web

Energy flow in an ecosystem

Autotrophs and Heterotrophs

__** LESSON 3 **__

**__EQ:__ What are the feeding relationships of the 12 organisms in Mono Lake ? **

 * __Lab Book:__** Page - Not Applicable
 * __FOSS Text__**: Pages - Not Applicable

You will use 12 cards of Mono-lake organisms along with cut out arrows to show the feeding relationships of the organisms of mono lake. The arrows will show where the energy is being transferred to.

Toxic loving microbes @ Mono Lake

__ ** LESSON 4 ** __

**__EQ:__ How can we use technology to model food web relationships? **
=Mono Lake Interactive Food Web= INTERACTIVE FOOD WEBS  !!! Practice these food webs as much as possible as your assessment will be based on these. !!! =Mono Lake Interactive Food Web= Arctic Refuge Food Web El Unque Rain Forrest Food Web Monongahela Food Web Everglades Food Web Delaware Water Gap Food Web Yellowstone National Park Food Web Saguaro National Park Food Web Monterey Bay Food Web Florida Keys Food Web Cimerron National Grasslands
 * __Lab Book:__** Page - Not Applicable
 * __FOSS Text__**: Pages - Not Applicable

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=Food Chains, Webs, & Decomposers= =Cool Food Web Game= =Build a food web= =Energy flow in an ecosystem= =Ecoscenarios - Pop & Eco=

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