An Ocean of Energy

Students are introduced to an energy pyramid as a different graphic model to show the energy relationships among producers, consumers, and decomposers. Students construct an energy pyramid using information presented in the PowerPoint An Ocean of Food Chains and Food Webs and their marine seafood web.

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Hawaii Content and Performance Standards III
5th Grade
SC.5.2.1 Use models and/or simulations to represent and investigate features of objects, events, and processes in the real world
SC.5.3.1 Describe the cycle of energy among producers, consumers, and decomposers
SC.5.3.2 Describe the interdependent relationships among producers, consumers, and decomposers in an ecosystem in terms of the cycles of matter

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carnivores, consumers, crustacean, decomposers, ecosystem, finifsh, food chain, food web, energy pyramid, herbivores, living marine resources, mollusk, shellfish, scavengers, producers

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