What is a community?
What is an ecosystem?
How are they related and not related?
Vocabulary
Community, organism, environmental factors, plants, decomposers, producers, mold, algae, yeaast, bacteria, virus, oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, heat, light, gravity, water, plant consumers, animal consumers, water cycle, pollutant, pollution, ecosystem, aquarium, terrarium, population, food chaiin, food web, biome, control, fertilizer, nutrients, circle of life.
Ecosystems and constancy, measurement, and change...
Ecosystems in evolution and equilibrium...
Models ...
Experiments need controls to ...
Water cycle for life...
Humans change ecosystems...
Pollution...
Pollutants...
Exploration Activity
Invention Activities
Design an ecosystem and maintain it.
Describe all organisms and popluations in an ecosystem.
Mold as a decomposer
Invent ecosystem model
Where watter comes from experiment
Moisture in the air
Invent the need for clean water and the water cycle model
Freon
Review water cycle and add to ecosystem model
Human breath, BTB, carbon dioxide experiment
Carbon dioxide hunt
Review BTB as an indicator
Snails and BTB
Water plants and BTB
Fish and carbon dioxide
Invent the carbon dioxide and oxygen cycle
Decomposers and carbon dioxide
Fertilizer andplant gowth
Tracking fertilizer
Invent pollutant and pollution and add to ecosystem model
Expansion Activity