Energy Flow Through an Ecosystem: Food Chains, Food Webs, and Energy Pyramids PPT

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PPT

Energy Flow Through an Ecosystem: Food Chains, Food Webs, and Energy Pyramids

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When a minnow eats a piece of plastic, that garbage often tracks through multiple animals, causing harm to each as it passes through the food chain. Scholars learn about food chains, food webs, and energy pyramids with a presentation. It describes the role of producers, consumers, and decomposers in each.

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Concepts

food chains, food webs, the energy pyramid, energy flow, ecosystems, photosynthesis, producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, tertiary consumers, cellular respiration, herbivores, omnivores, carnivores, predators, prey, scavengers

Additional Tags

science

Instructional Ideas

Challenge pupils to create a complex food chain consisting of more than 10 organisms
Discuss what happens if there is an issue somewhere in the food pyramid

Classroom Considerations

Relies on prior knowledge of predator-prey relationships and food as energy

Pros

Highlights vocabulary words on each slide
Uses high-contrast colors for visibility

Cons

None

Common Core

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