As you have learned, ecosystems are a complex and delicate balancing game. The addition or removal of one species affects many other species with which it might compete for, or provide food for. In this Competency Assessment you will get a chance to "build your own" ecosystem, and explore the effects of these interrelationships.

Your task is to build a complete food web that supports all the organisms present in the simulated ecosystem. You will need three additional resources to complete this Competency Assessment:

Habitable Planet Food Web Ecology Procedures (Google Doc)

Habitable Planet Food Web Ecology Report (Google Doc)

The website: Habitable Planet Interactive Ecology Lab (Webpage) and the associated simulator: