This energy flow in ecosystems reading passage and worksheet teaches students how energy flows through ecosystems and the roles that different organisms play in the transfer of energy.
Includes both PRINT and GOOGLE SLIDES options to assign!
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In this activity, students will:
- READ an article about topics related to the energy flow in ecosystems, food webs, and energy pyramids.
- DEFINE key terms using context clues from the reading.
- ANSWER text-dependent questions. All answers come from the text, so no prior knowledge is required!
The reading covers the following topics:
- Solar energy drives all life processes
- Producers/autotrophs
- Consumers and consumer types
- Food chains vs food webs
- Energy pyramids & 10% rule
- How ecosystem disruptions can affect food webs
- Decomposers
- Importance of biodiversity importance
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- Includes an “Energy in Ecosystems” presentation in both PPT and Google Slides, plus a Cloze worksheet for students to fill in the blanks as they view the presentation.
Teacher Notes:
- Includes answer keys.
- Please note that this energy flow in ecosystems reading is not editable.
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Related Standards:
- NGSS MS-LS2-1: Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem.
- NGSS MS-LS2-2: Construct an explanation that predicts patterns of interactions among organisms across multiple ecosystems.
- NGSS MS-LS2-3: Develop a model to describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy among living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem.
- NGSS MS-LS2-4: Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations.
