Ecology Scavenger Hunt (Web Quest)

#1 Populations

  1. What is population?
  1. Two things that increase a population
  1. Two things that decrease a population

#2 Communities

  1. What is a community?
  1. What types of interactions occur in communities?

#3 Ecosystems

  1. What is an ecosystem?
  1. What do ecosystems include?
  1. What happens if one part of an ecosystem in damaged or destroyed?

#4: Biodiversity

  1. What is biodiversity?
  1. What are two types of biodiversity?
  1. Why is biodiversity important?
  1. What are some of the threats to biodiversity?

#5: Food Chains

Use the following organisms todiagram a food chain: snake, frog, caterpillar, owl, and flower.

  1. A person is called a ______because theyeat meat & vegetables.
  1. ______are animals that only eat meat.
  1. ______are animals that only eat plants.

When you are finished with m – o go to play a game to review these terms

#6 Food WebsGo to choose one of the three food webs.Put the food web together.

  1. Name a consumer in your food web ______
  1. Name a producer in your food web ______
  1. Name a decomposer(if there is one) in your food web ______

#7Energy in an Ecosystem

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

#810% RuleGo to page 72 in your textbook.

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

#9Carbon Cycle

Diagram the carbon cycle:

  1. Name 2 places on the earth we find carbon
  1. Plants pull carbon (in the form of carbon dioxide) from the atmosphere to make food, through a process called ______.
  1. Through food chains, animals get ______from the plants and other animals they eat.
  1. When plants and animals die and ______, carbon goes back into the ground.
  1. Some carbon is buried deep in the ground and forms ______.
  1. When humans burn fossil fuels, ______is released back into the atmosphere.
  1. When humans and animals exhale, they release carbon back into the air by a process called ______.

#10Nitrogen Cycle

Diagram the nitrogen cycle:

  1. What are 2 ways nitrogen becomes useable to plants, humans and animals?
  1. How do herbivores obtain the nitrogen they need?
  1. How is nitrogen returned to the atmosphere?
  1. What are two ways humans impact the nitrogencycle:

#11 Water Cycle

Diagram the water cycle:

#12 Biomes Around the World

  1. How are biomes determined?
  1. What are the 6 Biomes of the World?
  1. What are the Freshwater Ecosystems?
  1. What are the Marine Ecosystems?

#13 Human ImpactSearch the internet for reliable information on human’s influence on the following:

Deforestation

Human

Soil Erosion

Extinction of Species

Fires

Pollution

Greenhouse Effect