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Lesson 74 of 84 ยท Simple Ecosystems

Simulationโญ 30 XP๐ŸŒฟ Wild Jungle

Food Chains: Who Eats What? (Part 3)

๐ŸงชLab Brief #74

Simple Ecosystems.

๐ŸŽฏ Your mission

Play with the model. Break it. Understand it.

โšก The twist

What the body does in one minute is wilder than any cartoon.

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Mind = Blown

๐Ÿฆ  You have more bacterial cells in your body than human cells.

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Make a hypothesis first

Guess: how does the body solve this problem?

What You'll Learn

A food chain shows who eats what. Grass is eaten by rabbits, and rabbits are eaten by foxes.

Key Words

  • migrate
  • adapt
  • food chain

Steps

Step 1 โ€” Read

Look at the picture and read the labels.

Step 2 โ€” Do

Go outside and collect 5 different leaves. Tape them to paper and write how each one is different.

Step 3 โ€” Observe

Draw a picture of what you observe.

Step 4 โ€” Record

Share your results with a partner.

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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What is camouflage?

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Where you see this in real life

This is why plants grow toward windows and why scabs form.

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Stretch Challenge

Try this in real life this week.

Watch a plant or pet for 5 minutes today and write down what you noticed.

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For the dinner table

โ€œTell me something you noticed about your own body today.โ€

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