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Coursera 1 1.1. Scarcity and Its Implications
This module discusses fundamental problem of scarcity challenges us to think about an allocation mechanism to determine what is produced and who consumes it. It discuss scarcity and allocation mechanisms. In this course,the focus is on...
Shmoop University
Shmoop: Ecosystem Energy Flow
Explains the processes by which energy flows through an ecosystem. Covers the meanings of key vocabulary, e.g., types of producers and consumers, trophic levels, food webs, and the energy pyramid.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Consumer and Producer Surplus and Allocative Efficiency
Practice what you've learned about consumer and producer surplus in this four-question exercise.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Clipping Coupons
Explore this website to find out how and why consumers make choices on what products to buy. Learn how producers entice consumers into buying their products. This is a very informative lesson plan.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Lesson Overview: Taxation and Deadweight Loss
This article provides an overview of Taxation and Deadweight Loss. When a tax is imposed on a market it will reduce the quantity that will be sold in the market. Whenever the quantity sold in the market is not the equilibrium quantity,...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: International Trade and Public Policy
Practice what you have learned about the impact of trade, tariffs, and quotas on consumer and producer surplus in this exercise.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Habitat and Niche
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Are you on the basketball team? Are you a cheerleader? Do you play an instrument in the band? Your niche would be your role or place in the school. Organisms also...
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Organization of an Ecosystem Aqa
This lesson focuses on the organization of an ecosystem. The feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem can be seen in food chains. Sampling allows us to measure the abundance and distribution of these species. It provides...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Overpopulation and Over Consumption
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Looks at how the human population has grown. Some consume a tremendous amount of resources and produce a lot of waste.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Food Webs
Young scholars construct possible food webs for six different ecosystems as they learn about the roles of producers, consumers, herbivores, carnivores and decomposers.
National Geographic
National Geographic: Coral Reef Food Web
Explore the food web in a coral reef with these illustration. Identify the consumers, producers, and decomposers that are located within this ecosystem. Site includes illustration exploring the different food chains as well as questions...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Computer Simulation of the Sonoran Desert Community
The computer program's simulation of a Sonoran desert community should ultimately strengthen the student's comprehension of what is required for a natural ecosystem to sustain itself (remain in balance). This computer simulation program...
Science Struck
Science Struck: Tropical Rainforest Energy Pyramid and Its Importance
Explains the roles of consumers, producers, and detrivores or decomposers and how energy flows through the different levels of the energy pyramid of a tropical rainforest.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Living Organisms and Their Environment: Lesson 2
This lesson will discuss the interactions of and interdependence among living things. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Living Organisms and Their Environment."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Living Organisms and Their Environment: Lesson 3
This lesson will discuss the interactions of and interdependence among living things. It is 3 of 4 in the series titled "Living Organisms and Their Environment."
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Producer Price Indexes
This page presents general information on the Producer Price Index, detailed statistics, tables and official publications, and more.
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Trinity P3: What Are the Biggest Issues and Challenges Facing Media Today?
Lists some of the many major changes that the media industry is going through, at all levels and in all roles from producer to marketer to consumer. The results of an industry survey are described and a detailed summary is provided...
Science Struck
Science Struck: Difference Between Food Chain and Food Web
Explains the characteristics of food chains and food web; the different levels of producers, consumers, and decomposers; and the differences between food chains and food webs. Includes charts and a Venn diagram comparing the two.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Photosynthesis and Respiration
Students use the gas sensors to measure the amounts of oxygen and carbon dioxide consumed or produced by a plant during respiration and photosynthesis. They also determine the rate of respiration and photosynthesis in a plant.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Demand, Supply, and Markets
This site discusses in great detail the differences between demand, supply, and markets. Useful economic terminology is identified in bold.
FT Exploring
Ft Exploring: The Flow of Energy Through Plants and Animals
Explore the different ecological roles of organisms in the ecosystem, and find out how the energy flows through them.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Price Ceilings and Price Floors
This article discusses how quantity demanded react to artificial constraints on price.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Ecosystem Food Chain and Food Web
Starts with living and non living and works through producers, consumers, food chains and food webs.
Channel 4 Learning
4 Learning: Science Essentials: Interdependence and Adaptation
Article describes the importance of green plants and the ideal conditions they need to produce the food and oxygen people need to live.