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Students are to model their ecosystem. The model should include appropriate living and non-living organisms present. The paper should include an appropriate description of their ecosystem including the climate, what living and non-living organisms are present, how the living organisms meet their needs for survival, and example of a food chain or web that exists in this environment, what types of changes could take place, what those changes could do to the populations within that ecosystem, and what microbes might be present that may drastically effect the ecosystem.Students will need to state the species scientific name. Students will also have to discribe the interconnected relationships of the species of their choice. Key Points: that energy driving the ecosystem comes from the sun the web of life is contunually dying and feeding other sections of the ecosystem that diversity assures resilience