CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Flow of Energy in Ecosystems
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how energy is transfered from one organism to another.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Flow of Energy in Ecosystems
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how energy is transferred from one organism to another.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Flow of Energy in Ecosystems
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how energy is transfered from one organism to another.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Flow of Energy in Ecosystems
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how energy is transferred from one organism to another.
Other
Inheritance, Evolution, and Ecosystems
Students learn about inheritance, evolution, and ecosystems. Some topics explored in the tutorial are five kingdoms, respiration, energy transfer, and nutrient cycle.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: The Habitable Planet: Ecosystems: Energy Flow Through
Detailed explanation of the processes by which energy flows through an ecosystem. Scroll down and open Section 3.
Other
Marietta College: Ecosystems
Complete illustrated discussion of energy flow within ecosystems, including discussions of trophic levels, ecological pyramids, food chains and webs, biological magnification, and cycles.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Ecosystems Quiz
Take an interactive quiz over ecology and ecosystems. After completing the quiz, check your score, and then revisit any incorrect question for further review.
Open Curriculum
Open Curriculum: Flow of Energy in Ecosystems
Students will understand and describe food chains and food webs, and explain how energy is transferred between their trophic levels.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Energy Pyramids in Different Biome Locations
A research activity where young scholars research the various biotic and abiotic factors that combine to make up a biome. The end product will be the creation of a PowerPoint presentation that identifies these factors and the creation of...
Other
Marietta College: Biology: Energy Flow Through the Ecosystem
Read to understand how energy and inorganic nutrients flow through a food chain in an ecosystem.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Flow of Energy
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] When an herbivore eats a plant, the energy in the plant tissues is used by the herbivore. Every time energy is transferred from one organism to another, there is a...
National Geographic
National Geographic: Marine Ecosystems and Biodiversity
For this unit students explore major marine ecosystems by locating them on maps. Students use marine examples to learn about energy transfer through food chains and food webs and then they discuss how food webs can illustrate the health...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Using Plant Surveys to Study Biodiversity
An extended field investigation intended as launch into several concepts in environmental science including biodiversity, human impacts on natural systems, and energy transfer in ecosystems.
Bio Topics
Bio Topics: Food Chains and Webs
Trace the energy transfer through food chains and food webs. Check your understanding by hovering your mouse over questions to reveal the answers.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Biodiversity: Local Ecosystem & Food Web
This is a hands on lesson in which students will explore their local community to identify living things. It can be used as part of a unit on biodiversity and energy transfer within a biology, zoology, or environmental science course, or...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Food Chains and Food Webs
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Videos, texts, activities, and assessments about food chains and food webs in an ecosystem.
Shmoop University
Shmoop: Ecosystem Energy Flow
Explains the processes by which energy flows through an ecosystem. Covers the meanings of key vocabulary, e.g., types of producers and consumers, trophic levels, food webs, and the energy pyramid.
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Ecosystems and You
Slideshow that looks at energy flow in an ecosystem. Explains what an ecosystem is, how energy flows through it, the producers and consumers of energy, and food chains. Links to a video about plastic debris in the ocean.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Food Chains: Nature's Restaurant
Learners begin this lesson by making observations and recording evidence of the variety of living things in local nature site. Students use reference materials to research predators and food of the animals they observed, then illustrate...
Ducksters
Ducksters: Science for Kids: Food Chain and Web
Kids learn about the food chain and food web. How energy cycles and transfers through living organisms.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Ecology Quiz
Take this interactive, multiple-choice quiz over concepts in ecology, then review your score and any missed questions at the end.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Food Chains Quiz
Take an interactive quiz over food chains. After completing the quiz, check your score, and then revisit any incorrect question for further review.