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COMPARING ECOSYSTEMS - THE TASK FOR OUR YEAR 8 PUPILS:

How does a woodland ecosystem differ from an open grassland ecosystem?

In class, our Year 8 pupils have learned about the different components of an ecosystem. Ecosystems contain abiotic elements (non-living: sunlight, water, rock, air) and biotic elements (living: vegetation, insects, animals) and soil.

Ecosystems can vary in size. Within the grounds of Priestlands School, we can find open grassland ecosystems and woodland ecosystems.

  • So how do these ecosystems differ?
  • Can our knowledge of what ecosystems are made up of help us to explain why these two types of ecosystem are so different?

    To answer these questions, the pupils collected data about the abiotic and biotic elements of each type of ecosystem: vegetation, soil type, acidity and water content, plant and animal life, temperature and humidity.

    They presented their findings in project form, drawing conclusions from the results that they obtained.


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