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Energy Transfer in Trophic Levels

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Learn more about food chains, the food web, and the concepts relating to them. It focuses on consumers, producers, decomposers, energy transfer, and energy loss across trophic levels.

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Concepts

trophic levels, energy transfer, producers, autotrophs, consumers, herbivores, omnivores, carnivores, decomposers, food chains, food webs

Additional Tags

science

Instructional Ideas

Copy the trophic level diagram at 0:45 into science journals
Discuss the pros and cons of food web and food chains

Classroom Considerations

Assumes prior knowledge of autotrophs and heterotrophs, but it is not required

This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

Highlights vocabulary throughout
Does not require much class time

Cons

None

Common Core

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