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Ecology Project
(Major Grade! +10 best in class)
TEK: 12C (RS): -Analyze the flow of matter and energy through trophic levels
using various models, including food chains, food webs, and ecological pyramids.
Why?: -To Have an understanding of how we receive our energy needed to
sustain life.
Procedure: -You will have three main topics that you will draw and describe. Use
three different posters one for each Topic 1-3!
Topic 1: Food Chain
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-Draw a food chain starting with producers to Quaternary consumers.
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-Describe what a food chain is.
Topic 2: Food Web
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-Draw a food web. (Have at least 4 Trophic Levels)
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-Label and Describe the four Trophic Levels within your food web/
and label the order of each consumer. (Adjust your food web to
show each Trophic Level)
4th Trophic Level
3rd Trophic Level
2nd Trophic Level
1st Trophic Level
Topic 3: Ecological Pyramids (p.44 for an example/ Create your own examples
for your own organisms!!)
30 pts.
-Draw and describe the 3 Ecological Pyramids in your own words
(summarize)!
Summarize your thoughts:
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Use the food web depicted below to describe what would happen to the
biodiversity of the Climax Community if the bacteria were depleted by farming
fertilization run off/ habitat destruction.