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9.7 Food Chain, Web, Decomposers & Population Size

This document provides an activity briefing on key concepts in ecology. It outlines learning outcomes and introduces the work of scientists, food chains and webs, energy flow, decomposers, and factors affecting population size. It also lists Edpuzzle videos and checkpoint questions for students to reinforce their understanding of these ecological topics.

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9.7 Food Chain, Web, Decomposers & Population Size

This document provides an activity briefing on key concepts in ecology. It outlines learning outcomes and introduces the work of scientists, food chains and webs, energy flow, decomposers, and factors affecting population size. It also lists Edpuzzle videos and checkpoint questions for students to reinforce their understanding of these ecological topics.

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ACTIVITY BRIEFING

1. What are the work of scientists?


2. What is food chain, food web &
energy flow?
3. What are decomposers?
4. What are the factors affecting
population size?
ACTIVITY BRIEFING

5. Edpuzzles videos
6. CIE Questions
LEARNING OUTCOMES
WHAT ARE THE WORK OF SCIENTISTS?

1. Observing animals
2. Following tracks
3. Using automated
cameras
4. Using electronic tags
WHAT IS FOOD CHAIN?
● linear sequence of
organisms through which
nutrients and energy gets
transferred as one
organism eats another.

● starts with a producer


WHAT IS FOOD WEB?
● All of the interconnected
and overlapping food
chains combined.
WHAT IS ENERGY FLOW?
● Arrows (→) show the
transfer of energy
between the organisms.
WHAT ARE DECOMPOSERS?
● Organisms that cannot make
their own food.
● Break down dead organisms
(animals or plants) into:
○ nutrients and simpler
substances (nitrates,
phosphates)
○ gases (carbon dioxide)
WHAT ARE DECOMPOSERS?
Examples of decomposers are:
● Scavengers : Large dead→Small
○ Vultures
○ Hyenas
○ Crows
○ Earthworms
○ Crickets
○ Ants
WHAT ARE DECOMPOSERS?
Examples of decomposers are:
● Microorganisms : Small dead → simpler substance
○ Bacteria
○ Fungi
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Diseases
Vestibulum congue

Vestibulum congue

Source of
Migration
Vestibulum congue Vestibulum congue

Factors food
affecting
population
size

Drought
Vestibulum congue Predators
Vestibulum congue
Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane
(DDT)
How can DDT kill a heron when it is sprayed onto crops at a safe dose?

DDT is sprayed Microscopic water Large fish eat the small


onto fields at a plants and animals fish and take in the DDT.
The amount of DDT stored
safe dose for absorb a small
in the large fish becomes
wildlife. amount of DDT and quite high.
store it.

When it rains, Small fish eat the A heron eats lots of


some DDT is small plants and large fish. So it takes
in lots of doses of
washed into a animals, and take
DDT. The amount of
stream. in the DDT. They DDT builds up,
also store the becomes toxic and
DDT. may kill the heron.
EdPuzzle videos
Watch EdPuzzle videos

9S: https://edpuzzle.com/join/monlemt (code: monlemt)

9I: https://edpuzzle.com/join/enipeve (code: enipeve)


Checkpoint (CIE) questions
Quizzes:

9I:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf6na-545ARKHtx8UNQ205SrNL
RZ8ctha78BiUQOvkTqQbeHw/viewform?usp=sf_link

9S: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfc5eLfk-22gvkgma-
q9rNof71JBWVq8ixk8I3enmOcqFFAzA/viewform?usp=sf_link

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