BioMan Biology
Bio Man Biology: Ecology Quizzes
Three multiple-choice quizzes on topics and vocabulary in ecology.
BioMan Biology
Bio Man Biology: Angry Aliens: Ecology
Teach aliens about ecology as you play this game, and review your own understanding in the process. Topics covered include levels of organization, ecological relationships, nutrition and energy, cycles (water, carbon, and nitrogen), and...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Biology: Flow of Energy in an Ecosystem: Self Check Quiz
Try this five question comprehension check over ecosystems and the ecological relationships within them.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Organism Relationships: Food Chains, Webs, Pyramids
Given illustrations, students will analyze the flow of matter and energy in food chains, food webs, and ecological pyramids.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: The Habitable Planet: Ecology Lab
Create the parameters of your own ecosystem by choosing which producers and consumers live there. Visualize how the food web operates and species populations change. This simulator mimics the food web within a typical ecosystem and gives...
Other
Study of Northern Virgina Ecology: Black Carpenter Ant
Lots of information about the black carpenter ant. Learn about their physical characteristics, colonies, life cycle, food sources, and predators. A detailed chart listing many plants and animals permits exploration of their relationships...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Community Ecology Study Guide
This comprehensive study guide covers the main terms and concepts needed for a unit on community ecology.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Biology Foundations: Ecology Unit Test
Test your skills with this nine-question unit test.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Ecology Disrupted: Chesapeake Bay Food Web
In this comprehensive lesson unit, students examine how overfishing has affected Chesapeake Bay's ecosystem. They will study food webs from the past and present and graph related data.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Biology: Community Ecology
Find out what you know about community ecology by taking this interactive pretest.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Schoolyard Bio Blitz
For this activity, students visit a small section of the schoolyard and record observations in a scientific journal. They will observe different things as the school year progresses, including ecological relationships, human impact on...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Fifth Grade Science: Life Science: The Flow of Energy in an Ecosystem
A module that explains what an ecosystem is and how energy and matter move through them. Students will look at the different roles of plants and animals and at ecological relationships in food chains and food webs.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Environmental Reconnaissance of a Salt Marsh
A field and computer laboratory exercise that introduces students to using Google Earth, GPS, aerial imagery, and an online illustrated vegetation and tidal marsh environment identification guide. Students are challenged to distinguish...
Ohio State University
Ohio State University: Concepts of Plant Ecology
An advanced discussion of plant interactions and relationships. Energy flow, nutrient cycling and succession are discussed. Try the quiz to check your understanding.
Untamed Science
Untamed Science: Ecology: The Study of Interactions
Learn about how ecology is simply the study of how and why organisms interact with their environments.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Symbiotic Relationships of Fungi
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses parasitic and mutualistic relationships of fungi.
Other
Northern Virginia Ecology: Golden Shiner
Created by teachers in a Northern Virginia school district, this site focuses on the relationships between the golden shiner minnow and other elements of its environment.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Symbiotic Relationships in the Desert
Describes three types of symbiotic relationships that can be found in a desert biome.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Mutualism Relationships
Learn how mutualism benefits the organisms in a symbiotic relationship and what the different types of mutualism are. Provides lots of examples.
Other
Buzzle.com: Animal Sake: 10 Examples of Predator Prey Relationships
Explains what a predator-prey relationship is and describes ten examples of this.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ecology: What Is an Ecosystem
Learn what an ecosystem is, how energy and matter move through ecosystems, and what makes an ecosystem stable.
The Wonder of Science
The Wonder of Science: Ms Ls2 2: Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems
Work samples, phenomena, assessment templates, and videos that directly address standard MS-LS2-2: interdependent relationships in ecosystems.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Biomes and Population Dynamics
This lesson begins with a PowerPoint slideshow that covers important ecological concepts about biomes, limiting factors, carrying capacity, and population growth. Learners will look at the population dynamics involved with the diversity...
Other
The Habitable Planet Simulation
This activity is designed to accompany an interactive on the Annenberg Learner website. Students investigate the changes that take place in an ecosystem when they alter the organisms in a food web. As they work with the simulation, they...