Standard 6.1 - Explain how birth, death, immigration, and emigration influence population size.
- Go to www.explorelearning.com and complete the Food Chain gizmo and answer the multiple choice questions. Find login information at the bottom of this page.
Standard 6.2 - Analyze changes in population size and biodiversity (speciation and extinction) that result from the following: natural causes, changes in climate, human activity, and the introduction of
invasive, non-native species.
- Choose from many Biodiversity Games
- Play Nab the Aquatic Invader (if you have not already)
Standard 6.3 - Use a food web to identify and distinguish producers, consumers, and decomposers, and explain the transfer of energy through trophic levels. Describe how relationships among organisms (predation, parasitism, competition, commensalism, mutualism) add to the complexity of biological communities.
- Interactive Food Web (try to solve the mystery)
- Meet the parasites ... (if you haven't met them already)
Standard 6.4 - Explain how water, carbon, and nitrogen cycle between abiotic resources and organic matter in an ecosystem, and how oxygen cycles through photosynthesis and respiration.
Miscellaneous Sites (Thursday, June 23, 2011)
- Exploratorium's Fun Activities and Experiences
- Optical Illusions
- Search whitneyscience.blogspot.com by topic
Explorelearning.com login information (username password).
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