Standard 10: Energy Flow (Ch. 16, Sec. 1 and 2) (Ecosystems)
Objectives: -Explain how biotic and abiotic factors that constitute an ecosystem. -Create a food web that demonstrates all of the levels of organisms in an ecosystem. -Analyze the energy transfer in an energy pyramid, and calculate the total energy a consumer at the top of the pyramid is consuming. -Can list biotic and abiotic factors in an evironment. -Can make a food chain with a producer, primary consumer, and a secondary consumer. -Can indicate which way energy flows on an energy pyramid and demonstrates their understanding of gain/loss of energy throughout the different levels of the pyramid.