Interactions within Ecosystems · Life Science

The Flow of Energy

Investigating how energy moves from the sun through producers, consumers, and decomposers in a food web.

Key Questions

  1. 1What would happen if a top predator was suddenly removed from a local forest?
  2. 2How does the sun's energy eventually end up in the body of a mushroom?
  3. 3Why is there always less energy available at the top of an ecological pyramid?

Ontario Curriculum Expectations

ON: Interactions in the Environment - Grade 7
Grade: Grade 7
Subject: Science
Unit: Interactions within Ecosystems
Period: Life Science

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