Year 9 · Autumn Second Half
Biology
3 lessons from 1 unit.
Unit B9 · lessons 1 to 3 of 6
Ecosystems and interdependence
Nothing in a habitat feeds itself alone. This unit follows the energy from the plants that capture it up through everything that eats, watches what happens when one species is taken out, and ends with the problem of counting a field you cannot count all of.
- 01Food chains and food websSystemNobody has ever found a food chain with ten links in it. There is a reason, it is arithmetic, and it decides the shape of every ecosystem on Earth.Open this lesson
- 02Predator and preyModelA fox eating rabbits is bad news for the rabbits. A fox population eating a rabbit population is something stranger: two numbers chasing each other round in a circle, neither able to win.Open this lesson
- 03Disturbing a food webSystemPull one thread out of a web and the whole thing moves. The species that end up in trouble are usually not the ones anybody was thinking about.Open this lesson
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