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    The document provides instructions for students to research and model an ecosystem. It includes questions to answer about the ecosystem's location, abiotic and biotic factors, food chains, and energy/nutrient cycling. Students are asked to choose an ecosystem other than the example freshwater lake ecosystem shown. They will identify producers, consumers, and decomposers and draw a food web in their own ecosystem model.

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    The document provides instructions for students to research and model an ecosystem. It includes questions to answer about the ecosystem's location, abiotic and biotic factors, food chains, and energy/nutrient cycling. Students are asked to choose an ecosystem other than the example freshwater lake ecosystem shown. They will identify producers, consumers, and decomposers and draw a food web in their own ecosystem model.

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    Name Date Page 1

    Research an Ecosystem
    An ecosystem is made up of a community of organisms and the nonliving environment in which
    they interact. For example, here is a model of a freshwater lake ecosystem.
    Pick an ecosystem to research,
    other than the one pictured here.
    You can use textbooks or online SOLAR
    kingfisher
    resources to help you answer the ENERGY
    questions below about your
    ecosystem.
    bulrush
    1. Ecosystem:
    zoo-
    plankton
    phyto- water
    plankton
    2. Location of your ecosystem
    beetle

    (state or country):
    perch

    3. Abiotic factors are the nonliving


    crawfish
    components of an ecosystem. Identify
    some nonliving things in your ecosystem.
    Consider landforms like mountains or minnow
    valleys and sources of water like rivers,
    lakes, or oceans.

    pike

    bacteria

    4. Biotic factors are the living components of an ecosystem. Food chains are composed of biotic
    factors. They show how matter and energy can be transferred in an ecosystem. Identify two food
    chains in your ecosystem. Find a producer, a primary consumer, a secondary consumer, a tertiary
    consumer, and a decomposer for each food chain. Write these in the table below.

    PRIMARY SECONDARY TERTIARY


    PRODUCER DECOMPOSER
    CONSUMER CONSUMER CONSUMER

    FOOD
    CHAIN 1

    FOOD
    CHAIN 2

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    Name Date Page 2

    Research an Ecosystem
    Keep going! Answer the questions below.

    5. Create an ecosystem model in the space below. Include the following in your model:
    • Sketch some abiotic factors identified on page 1 that are unique to your ecosystem.
    • Draw a food web. Food webs connect food chains to describe how matter and energy are
    transferred in an ecosystem. Using your food chains from page 1, sketch and label the producers,
    consumers, and decomposers. Use arrows to show the relationships between them.
    • Ecosystems need a constant source of energy to survive. Add that source of energy to your
    model. Draw arrows showing where energy from the source is captured by the ecosystem.

    6. Choose one organism from your model above. Describe how that organism helps to cycle
    nutrients and energy through the ecosystem.

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