Ecosystem Energy Chains
Objectives
- Show knowledge and understanding of how energy enters and flows through ecosystems.
- Show knowledge and understanding of how energy is recycled between food cycles.
Theory Presentations/Assessment - Ecosystem Energy Chain
- Introduction
- The Origin of Energy
- Producers
- Consumers
- Trophic Levels
- Food Chains
- Food Webs
- Number Pyramids
- Energy Pyramids
- The Recycling of Energy
- Summary
Activity - Looking at Energy Pyramids
- Students will useuse an application to look at different ways of representing food chains. The will also use an application to investigate the transfer of chemical energy through ecosystems.