Day+6+Food+Webs+&+Pyramids

1. Vocab Quiz #1a - 20 min 2. Notes: Ecological Pyramids - 10 min 3. Video: Ecosystem Dynamics - 20 min 4. Pyramid Activity - 40 min
 * Daily Agenda:**

Objectives: 5.01 Investigate and analyze the interrelationships among organisms, populations, communities, and ecosystems.
 * Techniques of field ecology.
 * Abiotic and biotic factors.
 * Carrying capacity.

5.02 Analyze the flow of energy and the cycling of matter in the ecosystem
 * Relationship of the carbon cycle to photosynthesis and respiration.
 * Trophic levels - direction and efficiency of energy transfer.

Ecosystem Dynamics Video Questions

1. Living things ..... with each other and the environment. 2. ..... is the study of living things in the environment. 3. Wind is an example of an ..... factor. 4. Plants and animals are ..... components. 5. A group of flowers belong to the same ...... . 6. A group of the same species makes up a ..... . 7. A ..... consists of all the living things in a place. 8. ..... make their own energy. 9. ..... breakdown the remains of once living things. 10. ..... describes the overall number of species in an area.


 * Directions for Pyramid Activity:**


 * 1) Shade the first (bottom) level of each pyramid green.
 * 2) Shade the second level of each pyramid yellow.
 * 3) Shade the third level of each pyramid blue.
 * 4) Shade the fourth (top) level of each pyramid red.
 * 5) Label each level of the first pyramid side with the following terms as you move up the pyramid: producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer, tertiary consumer.
 * 6) Label each level of the second pyramid side with the following terms as you move up the pyramid: plants, herbivores, carnivores, top carnivores.
 * 7) Label each level of the third pyramid side with the following terms as your move up the pyramid: autotroph, 1st order heterotroph, 2nd order heterotroph, 3rd order heterotroph.
 * 8) Draw a picture of what might belong in each level:
 * 1st: flowers, trees, grass, algae
 * 2nd: caterpillars, cows, grasshoppers, beetles
 * 3rd: humans, birds, frogs
 * 4th: lions, dogs, snakes
 * 1) Fold your pyramid on the lines radiating from the center and tape it together.
 * 2) Answer the following questions using your pyramid on a sheet of notebook paper using complete sentences:
 * 3) What are three terms used to describe organisms such as trees?
 * 4) What are three terms used to describe organisms such as cows?
 * 5) What are three terms used to describe organisms such as humans?
 * 6) What are three terms sued to describe organisms such as lions?
 * 7) What do the organisms in each trophic level eat?
 * 8) Do organisms always stay in the same level? Explain your answer.