STEP 2-RESEARCH AND PREPARATION
What you need to research
1. Biome (environment). Use the textbook resources and websites in the STEP 1 page as a guide to choosing your ecosystem location.
2. Biotic factors. Research all the living things in your ecosystem. (YOU MAY NOT LOOK UP AN ECOSYSTEM DIAGRAM)
You must include:
**Be prepared to explain each bolded vocabulary word!**
3. Abiotic factors. Research non-living factors in your ecosystem such as lakes, streams, sunlight, ice, houses, soil, weather etc.
4. Limiting factors. Identify and analyze what keeps organisms in your ecosystem from over populating (reaching their reproductive potential). This could be natural disasters, humans impact (hunters or destruction), new buildings tearing down food supply, lack of space and increase of predators.
*You can record all your research on the outline. I will not be grading your notes, but I will review them twice during the research process. I will only grade your final project and presentation. Remember to check that you understand all science vocabulary as you research.
1. Biome (environment). Use the textbook resources and websites in the STEP 1 page as a guide to choosing your ecosystem location.
2. Biotic factors. Research all the living things in your ecosystem. (YOU MAY NOT LOOK UP AN ECOSYSTEM DIAGRAM)
You must include:
- 5 producers (plants and organisms that make their own food)
- at least 5 primary consumers (herbivores that eat producers only NO OMNIVORES)
- 3-5 secondary consumers (carnivores or omnivores that eat primary consumers)
- 2-3 tertiary consumers (carnivores only that eat the secondary consumers)
- 1 decomposer (you may use bacteria unless you can find something new)
**Be prepared to explain each bolded vocabulary word!**
3. Abiotic factors. Research non-living factors in your ecosystem such as lakes, streams, sunlight, ice, houses, soil, weather etc.
4. Limiting factors. Identify and analyze what keeps organisms in your ecosystem from over populating (reaching their reproductive potential). This could be natural disasters, humans impact (hunters or destruction), new buildings tearing down food supply, lack of space and increase of predators.
*You can record all your research on the outline. I will not be grading your notes, but I will review them twice during the research process. I will only grade your final project and presentation. Remember to check that you understand all science vocabulary as you research.