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Ecology Webquest 10

The document is an Ecology Webquest designed for students to explore various ecological concepts, including populations, communities, ecosystems, biodiversity, food chains, food webs, energy in ecosystems, and biogeochemical cycles like the carbon and nitrogen cycles. It includes questions and prompts for students to answer and diagrams to complete, focusing on the interactions within ecosystems and the impact of human activities. The webquest encourages critical thinking about ecological relationships and environmental issues.

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Ecology Webquest 10

The document is an Ecology Webquest designed for students to explore various ecological concepts, including populations, communities, ecosystems, biodiversity, food chains, food webs, energy in ecosystems, and biogeochemical cycles like the carbon and nitrogen cycles. It includes questions and prompts for students to answer and diagrams to complete, focusing on the interactions within ecosystems and the impact of human activities. The webquest encourages critical thinking about ecological relationships and environmental issues.

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Ecology Webquest

Name Date: Period:

#1 Populations

a. What is population?

b. Two things that increase a population

c. Two things that decrease a population

#2 Communities

d. What is a community?

e. How are communities distinguished?

#3 Ecosystems

f. What is an ecosystem?

g. What do ecosystems include?

h. What happens if one part of an ecosystem in damaged or destroyed?

#4: Biodiversity

i. What is biodiversity?
j. Why is it important?

k. What are abiotic factors?

l. What are biotic factors?

#5: Food Chains


Diagram your food chain:

m. A person is called a(n) because they eat meat &


vegetables.

n. are animals that only eat meat.

o. are animals that only eat plants.

#6 Food Webs

p. Name a consumer in your food web

q. Name a producer in your food web

r. Name a decomposer(if there is one) in your food web

#7 Energy in an Ecosystem

a. Write three to five sentences describing what you learned:


#8 10% Rule

b. What is the 10 percent rule? Where does the unused energy go?

#9 Carbon Cycle
Diagram the carbon cycle: Find an image and paste it here.

c. Name 2 places on the earth we find carbon


1.
2.

d. Plants pull carbon (in the form of carbon dioxide) from the atmosphere to make food,
through a process called .

e. Through food chains animals get from the plants and other animals they
eat.

f. When plants and animals die and , carbon goes back into the ground.

g. Some carbon is buried deep in the ground and forms .

h. When humans burn fossil fuels, is released back into the atmosphere.

i. When humans and animals exhale, they release carbon back into the air by a process
called .
#10 Nitrogen Cycle
Diagram the nitrogen cycle: Find an image and paste it here.

j. What are 2 ways nitrogen becomes useable to plants, humans and animals?

k. How do herbivores obtain the nitrogen they need?

l. How is nitrogen returned to the atmosphere?

m. What are two ways humans impact the nitrogen cycle:

#11 Human Impact


How have humans played a role in each one of these examples?

 Deforestation
 Soil Erosion

 Extinction of Species

 Fires

 Pollution

 Greenhouse Effect

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