Summary of Digital Lab: Predation: Introduction
Summary of Digital Lab: Predation: Introduction
Summary
In this virtual lab students explore a key component to the development of ecosystem understanding: the back-and-forth patterns that occur as a result of the predation cycle (the idea that these populations are opposite one another, as the predator population is increasing the prey population is decreasing and vice versa).
Driving Questions
- Investigate how shark birth rate influences the maximum shark population.
- Investigate how seal birth rate influences the maximum seal population.
- Investigate how starting seal population influences the length of predation cycles.
- Investigate how starting shark population influences the length of predation cycles.
NGSS Standards