Biology - EC: BIO.B.4.2.1
Biology - EC: BIO.B.4.2.1
Continuum of Activities
The list below represents a continuum of activities: resources categorized by Standard/Eligible Content that teachers may use to move students toward proficiency. Using LEA curriculum and available materials and resources, teachers can customize the activity statements/questions for classroom use.
This continuum of activities offers:
- Instructional activities designed to be integrated into planned lessons
- Questions/activities that grow in complexity
- Opportunities for differentiation for each student’s level of performance
Grade Levels
Commencement
Course, Subject
Biology
Related Academic Standards / Eligible Content
Activities
- A diagram that shows organisms in an ecosystem and identifies one of their food choices is known as a _______________.
- A diagram that shows organisms in an ecosystem and identifies all of their food choices is known as a ______________.
- As you travel up a food chain, what happens to the amount of energy available at each level? Why?
- When an entire species of herbivores is removed from an ecosystem, what will most likely happen to the plant population and why?
- When an entire species of herbivores is removed from an ecosystem, what will most likely happen to the carnivore population and why?
- As energy is lost into the environment as heat there is still enough energy in the ecosystem because energy is constantly be added to the ecosystem. Explain how energy is added into the ecosystem and describe the type of organisms that can capture this energy and store it.
Answer Key/Rubric
- Food chain
- Food web
- Acceptable answers include, but are not limited to:
The amount of energy available decreases because the energy is lost to the environment as heat energy.
- Acceptable answers include, but are not limited to:
- The plant population will increase because fewer organisms will be eating them.
- Acceptable answers include, but are not limited to:
- The carnivore population will decrease because they will not have a large source of food.
- Acceptable answers include, but are not limited to:
- Sunlight is trapped by producers in the process of photosynthesis. The energy is stored in the bonds of the glucose and ATP molecules.
