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Science & STEMEcosystems: Energy and Matter

Apex Predator Breakdown

Model how energy and matter move from the Sun through producers, consumers, predators, and decomposers.

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Learning Goals

  • Build a food web model.
  • Explain the role of producers, consumers, and decomposers.
  • Predict how ecosystem disruption affects organisms.

Mini Lesson

  1. 1The Sun provides energy for plants.
  2. 2Plants are producers because they make food.
  3. 3Animals are consumers because they eat plants or other animals.
  4. 4Decomposers break down dead matter and return materials to the ecosystem.
producerconsumerdecomposerecosystemfood webenergy

Interactive Activities

Tap an answer choice. The card will show feedback, the correct answer, visual model, and step-by-step explanation.

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Activity 1sequence

Build the Food Web

Question

Put the energy path in the correct order.

Instruction

Click the cards from the first energy source to the decomposer.

NGSS 5-LS2-1

Exit Ticket

What happens if grass disappears from this food web?

Show Suggested Answer

The grasshopper loses food, which affects the frog, hawk, and decomposers too.

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