Ecology and ecosystems
Understand ecosystems, energy transfer, nutrient cycling, succession and human impacts on biodiversity
What you'll learn
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Imagine a pond in your garden — it has water plants, tiny bugs, fish, and frogs all living together. That's an ecosystem!
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Which of these is part of an ecosystem? 🏞️
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Drag each living thing into the pond to build your ecosystem. 🐟
- 4
A simple food chain in a pond: algae → water flea → small fish → big fish. Each arrow means 'eaten by'. Let's see how energy flows! 🌿
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Put these in the right order to make a food chain: 🐇 (rabbit), 🌿 (grass), 🦊 (fox). Which is first?
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In a food chain, what does the arrow mean? 🌿→🐇
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What do we call a living thing that makes its own food (like a plant)? 🌱
Practise Ecology and ecosystems with Whizlo
Free AI-tutored lessons, unlimited practice questions, and progress tracking for ages 16–18. Aligned to the UK National Curriculum.