Population Dynamics Inquiry Simulation

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Students use an online simulation (https://www.biologysimulations.com/population-dynamics) to test a self-developed hypothesis. The simulation includes a plant, prey, and predator species. Students can manipulate the predator and prey starting populations, reproductive rate, and the amount of food needed for survival.

HS-LS2-1 Use mathematical and/or computational representations to support explanations of factors that affect carrying capacity of ecosystems at different scales

Ask questions to determine relationships, including quantitative relationships, between independent and dependent variables.

Ecosystems have carrying capacities, which are limits to the numbers of organisms and populations they can support. These limits result from such factors as the availability of living and nonliving resources and from such challenges such as predation, competition, and disease. Organisms would have the capacity to produce populations of great size were it not for the fact that environments and resources are finite. This fundamental tension affects the abundance (number of individuals) of species in any given ecosystem.

Population Dynamics Inquiry Simulation

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