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Eco Park
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Game Info for Teachers
COMBINED RATING
3.8 Stars
TEACHERS (8)
3.6
STUDENTS (1809)
4.0
LENGTH
15 Minutes
GRADES
3
4
5
CAPABILITIES
ES
Spanish Language Support
Text-to-Speech Support
Saves Progress
Description
This game allows the player to take on the role of several animals within an ecosystem.
Vocabulary Words
ecosystem
food web
predator
prey
herbivore
omnivore
carnivore
Instructions
Play through this interactive game to learn about Food Webs. Suitable for Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5.
Main Concepts
A predator is an animal that hunts other animals for food.
A prey is an animal that can be hunted by another animal for food.
Animals need energy to perform their life processes.
An omnivore is an animal that consumes both plants and animals.
When animals eat plants, they obtain the chemical energy stored in the plants.
An herbivore is an animal that consumes only plants.
A food web shows how matter and energy move in an ecosystem.
Examples of living resources are plants and animals.
Some examples of decomposers are fungi and bacteria.
A producer is an organism that can produce its own food to obtain energy.
Decomposition eventually recycles materials back to Earth’s soil for plants to use.
A carnivore is an animal that consumes only other animals.
Consumers are animals that eat other organisms to obtain energy.
Interdependency means that every organism depends on other organisms to survive.
The energy in an animal’s food was once energy from the Sun that was captured by plants.
Decomposers are organisms that break down dead plant and animal remains.
Discussion Questions
Before the Game
What is a food web? What is the difference between a predator and a prey?
After the Game
If a fox eats meat and vegetables, what type of consumer is it? If a beaver only eats plants, what type of consumer is it?
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Game Details
Difficulty
Content Integration
Lexile Level
905
