Isle Royal web quest Part I Your Goal: Explain how parts of an ecosystem are related and how they interact on Isle Royal. Isle Royal is a unique island that has been being studied for years by scientists. They are studying this island because it is isolated from other areas of land. This allows them to keep close watch on the animal populations living there. Your first goal is to find out where the island is located. Use this site to find out **http://mdotwas1.mdot.state.mi.us/public/statemap/statemap.cfm** Once there click on the upper portion of the map (the blue area) you should see Isle Royal clearly. 1. Where is it located? State Lake 2. Draw a picture of it below:
Use the following sites to do the next activity. **http://www.isle.royale.national-park.com/sights.htm#orchid** This site will give you an idea of the animals and plants that live on the island. **http://www.nps.gov/isro/naturescience/** This site will give you more information about the island and animals that live on the island. *Hint* use the links at the top to navigate through the pages Using this information complete the following activity: 1. On a separate sheet of paper Create a drawing that includes the following: a. The sun and Four producers b. Three consumers c. At least one decomposer d. One example of each relationship below must be labeled · predator/prey, · Symbiosis e. One example of each below must be labeled · Herbivore · Carnivore · Omnivore f. At least 2 abiotic features g. The names of each organism must be labeled. After your drawing is complete answer the following: 2. Describe one complete path that energy flowed through your isle royal food web. Include at least 4 steps in the chain (start with the sun, end with the last consumer). 3. Which organism will gain the most energy from its food source and which will gain the least. 4. Choose one animal and describe its niche Use this website for the following activity: **http://www.sgnis.org/kids/** · Choose the purple section that contains Michigan · Find the link for “Meeting the Suspects 5. Choose an invader write name here _ 6. How did it get here? 7. What (negative) effect does it have on our environment? 8. What can or is being done to help or control the population? Part II Please go to the page titled Isle Royale National Park Information Page at http://www.isle.royale.national-park.com/info.htm#moose Read the section titled The People at Isle Royale. 1. What things have humans done to impact the island? I can see about 5 examples in this paragraph. Can you name at least 2? a. b. 2. Are these impacts to the island helpful, harmful or neither (you need to answer for each of the examples above)? If they are negative what can we do to prevent this from happening in the future? a. b. Read Isle Royale's Wilderness World 3. If the Isle Royal lynx and caribou are no longer living, what is a scientific term that can define their species (gone, removed, extinct or altered)? 4. What do you think the author means by using the word browse (would this be a producer, consumer, predator or parasite)? 5. If lynx and caribou are considered native species, what would the wolves and moose living on the island be considered? 6. How did the wolves make the moose population healthier? 7. What other plants or animals do the moose depend on for survival? Fill in the chart below with your findings. (hint use paragraph, not the chart)
Animal (name)
Predator or prey (of moose) (choose one or say neither)
Producer, consumer or decomposer (choose one)
8. How does this compare to the drawing you made in part 1? Read Moose and Wolves 1. How long have scientists been studying the wolf /moose population? 2. Do you think they have been doing this long enough to get accurate information? 3. How does snow affect the balance between moose and wolves? 4. Who benefits from winters with a lot of snow? (moose or wolf) Who benefits from very warm summers? (Moose or wolf) 5. The parvovirus is a virus that attacks a canines (wolf/dog) digestive system. It lives inside the animal causing intense diarrhea and vomiting. Untreated it causes death. What type of relationship is this? (communalism, symbiosis or parasitism) Finally go to http://www.isleroyalewolf.org/data/data/womoabund.html look at the data in the chart. How does the wolf population effect the Moose population? Describe the pattern you see? The chart stops in 2008, what do you think it might look like today?
Part I
Your Goal: Explain how parts of an ecosystem are related and how they interact on Isle Royal.
Isle Royal is a unique island that has been being studied for years by scientists. They are studying this island because it is isolated from other areas of land. This allows them to keep close watch on the animal populations living there.
Your first goal is to find out where the island is located.
Use this site to find out **http://mdotwas1.mdot.state.mi.us/public/statemap/statemap.cfm**
Once there click on the upper portion of the map (the blue area) you should see Isle Royal clearly.
1. Where is it located? State Lake
2. Draw a picture of it below:
Use the following sites to do the next activity.
**http://www.isle.royale.national-park.com/sights.htm#orchid** This site will give you an idea of the animals and plants that live on the island.
**http://www.nps.gov/isro/naturescience/** This site will give you more information about the island and animals that live on the island. *Hint* use the links at the top to navigate through the pages
Using this information complete the following activity:
1. On a separate sheet of paper Create a drawing that includes the following:
a. The sun and Four producers
b. Three consumers
c. At least one decomposer
d. One example of each relationship below must be labeled
· predator/prey,
· Symbiosis
e. One example of each below must be labeled
· Herbivore
· Carnivore
· Omnivore
f. At least 2 abiotic features
g. The names of each organism must be labeled.
After your drawing is complete answer the following:
2. Describe one complete path that energy flowed through your isle royal food web. Include at least 4 steps in the chain (start with the sun, end with the last consumer).
3. Which organism will gain the most energy from its food source and which will gain the least.
4. Choose one animal and describe its niche
Use this website for the following activity: **http://www.sgnis.org/kids/**
· Choose the purple section that contains Michigan
· Find the link for “Meeting the Suspects
5. Choose an invader write name here _
6. How did it get here?
7. What (negative) effect does it have on our environment?
8. What can or is being done to help or control the population?
Part II
Please go to the page titled Isle Royale National Park Information Page at http://www.isle.royale.national-park.com/info.htm#moose
Read the section titled The People at Isle Royale.
1. What things have humans done to impact the island? I can see about 5 examples in this paragraph. Can you name at least 2?
a.
b.
2. Are these impacts to the island helpful, harmful or neither (you need to answer for each of the examples above)? If they are negative what can we do to prevent this from happening in the future?
a.
b.
Read Isle Royale's Wilderness World
3. If the Isle Royal lynx and caribou are no longer living, what is a scientific term that can define their species (gone, removed, extinct or altered)?
4. What do you think the author means by using the word browse (would this be a producer, consumer, predator or parasite)?
5. If lynx and caribou are considered native species, what would the wolves and moose living on the island be considered?
6. How did the wolves make the moose population healthier?
7. What other plants or animals do the moose depend on for survival? Fill in the chart below with your findings. (hint use paragraph, not the chart)
(name)
(choose one or say neither)
8. How does this compare to the drawing you made in part 1?
Read Moose and Wolves
1. How long have scientists been studying the wolf /moose population?
2. Do you think they have been doing this long enough to get accurate information?
3. How does snow affect the balance between moose and wolves?
4. Who benefits from winters with a lot of snow? (moose or wolf) Who benefits from very warm summers? (Moose or wolf)
5. The parvovirus is a virus that attacks a canines (wolf/dog) digestive system. It lives inside the animal causing intense diarrhea and vomiting. Untreated it causes death. What type of relationship is this? (communalism, symbiosis or parasitism)
Finally go to http://www.isleroyalewolf.org/data/data/womoabund.html look at the data in the chart. How does the wolf population effect the Moose population? Describe the pattern you see? The chart stops in 2008, what do you think it might look like today?