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Unit 4 .4.1ecosystem - Week 1

The document provides resources for a unit on ecosystems, including the Sonoran Desert. It includes textbook pages, 10 YouTube video links on ecosystems and food webs, and 5 online interactive games about ecosystems, food chains, producers and consumers. It also includes 3 additional sets of YouTube video links and a section for filling in gaps in a diagram on photosynthesis.

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Unit 4 .4.1ecosystem - Week 1

The document provides resources for a unit on ecosystems, including the Sonoran Desert. It includes textbook pages, 10 YouTube video links on ecosystems and food webs, and 5 online interactive games about ecosystems, food chains, producers and consumers. It also includes 3 additional sets of YouTube video links and a section for filling in gaps in a diagram on photosynthesis.

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Unit 4: Ecosystems

4.1 The Sonoran Desert.


Textbook pages 126- 132
Video links 1:-
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZsTKisedq8
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYmdrJWLQ4Y
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJEToQ49Yjc
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCHdhXMFhcU
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWPj2IkeklI
• Online interactive Games:-
• https://www.math4childrenplus.com/ecosystems/
• https://quizizz.com/join?gc=224010
• https://quizizz.com/join?gc=372228
• https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/games/foodchaingame.htm
• https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/games/producersconsumersgame.htm
Video links 2:-
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6Ua_zWDH6U
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK_vRtHJZu4
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLzY8FPJcfM
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYZjL8tWmJc
Video links 3 :
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6YrPt1ygX8
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrSWYE37MJs
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIJb9BRsLvg
Can you fill in the missing gaps?
Can you fill in the missing gaps?
oxygen
Carbon
dioxide

water glucose

Within any ecosystem, plants synthesise organic


compounds (those containing carbon and hydrogen)
from carbon dioxide obtained from the atmosphere or
in the case of aquatic plants the water. These organic
compounds include glucose, lipids, cellulose and
proteins Amino acids cellulose
lipids
Starter :
Definitions Recap :
• Herbivore:
• An animal that eats grass and other green plants in a food chain;
• Carnivore:
• A flesh-eating animal.
• Prey:
• An animal hunted or caught for food
• Predator:
• An organism that lives by preying on other organisms.
• Primary consumer:
• An animal that eats grass and other green plants in a food chain; an herbivore.
• Secondary consumer:
• An animal that feeds on smaller plant-eating animals in a food chain.
• tertiary consumer:
• An animal that feeds on secondary consumers in a food chain.
• Population:
• All the organisms of the same species living in the same place at the same
time.
Food Chains
• Food chains are one way of showing how organisms interact.
• For example:

Grass🡪 Rabbit 🡪 Fox

• The arrows represent the transfer of energy between organisms.


Consumers and Decomposers
• There are 3 types of consumer
• Herbivores eat plants
• Carnivores eat other animals
• Omnivores eat plants and animals

• Organisms that breakdown dead plants and animals are called


decomposers
• e.g. fungi, bacteria and worms
What Are Nonliving Things in a Desert
Ecosystem?
The nonliving things in an ecosystem
are known as the abiotic factors.
These are the soil, temperature, water
and even the amount of sunlight and
air . All of these factors determine what
types of life that environment can
support.
Learner’s book answers :
page 126
Learner’s book answers : Page 131
• Questions :
• 1. prickly pear cactus and brittlebrush.
• 2. The producers use energy from the Sun to make food by photosynthesis; this
makes energy available for all other organisms in the food web.
• 3. The arrows represent energy, in the form of chemical energy in food, passing
from one organism to another.
• 4. For example: Gila woodpeckers use saguaro cacti to make nests; fruit bats
pollinate saguaro cacti.
• 5. A habitat is a place where an organism lives. An ecosystem is a network of
interactions between living and non-living things; an ecosystem contains many
different habitats.
Workbook Answers :
Pages 70-71
Workbook answers :
page 71

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