Activity 6: The Virtual Foodweb
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Introduction: (Activity 6)
Learning goals:
- Population level behavior, in stable system
- Interaction/interdepence between species.

- Population level behavior, with environmental pressure
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Field Ecosystem: Food Web
Each part of an ecosystem is important. In the ecosystem below, there are three types of animals: sharks, fish and shrimp. There is also seaweed.







1. What do sharks eat? Fish Shrimp Seaweed 2. What does shrimp eat? Fish Shark Seaweed 3. If the seaweed died, what would happen to the rest of the animals?
Virtual Field: Food Web
Instructions:
Using the stamps and the pencil tool, draw the Virtual Field food web.


Virtual Field: Environmental Change
[MODEL WHERE KID ADDS bunny holes... one type of bunny will survive. We can also introduce more sun and kill the plants. We can do several experiments. Graph the bunnies and the foxes.]
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Activity 7- Introduce color
White and brown rabbits will evolve from a single species, spotted rabbits, which die out. Model will have mottled background with mountains rising on the top with snow and brown.