Students construct a food web with an introduction of a pesticide, looking at relationships between pathways of energy, food, and populations. Written responses to questions will follow. Visualization Activity - Students are asked to close their eyes while the instructor reads aloud a passage dealing with forest succession. They are asked to visualize or picture in their minds what is happening in the forest community. Maps will be collected and assessed according to completeness.
Closure is obtained with students sharing their ecodome creations.
Name one theory which explains the origin of the universe. List the 4 layers of the Earth. Identify various pieces of evidence to support the plate tectonic theory. Name a producer. Identify levels of organization from atom to the Earth.