Ecological Scavenger Hunt
If you examine an outdoor ecosystem, you will find autotrophs, heterotrophs, and decomposers forming a variety of food chains and food webs. You may also find evidence of competition for food, space and shelter, predator-prey relationships, and various types of symbiosis.
Procedure:
- You will be doing an ecological scavenger hunt. In most scavenger hunts, you are asked to collect different items. However, to disrupt the wildlife in this area as little as possible, you will do your collecting with a camera, pencil and a notebook.
- You will take pictures or sketch what you see on today’s field trip as it corresponds to each of the interactions listed below and provide a caption of how the picture you took relates to the item from the list.
- Your final product will be a digital scrapbook of these pictures with their appropriate captions. Please print out and bind your final product.
- ALL PICTURES MUST BE FROM TODAY AT THE BOSQUE.
- A keystone species
- An invasive species
- Scat as an example of fauna presence
- An indigenous species to our area
- Human threat
- simple food chain from animals viewed and photographed (at least 3 members) (x2)
- interspecific competitors
- mutualism
- predation
- a community
- a population
- endangered species
- threatened species
- Find and describe 2 abiotic factors in one ecosystem you see today. (x2)
- Find and describe 2 biotic factors that you see in one ecosystem today. (x2)
