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5th Grade Ecosystems LibGuide: Home

Coyotes in an Ecosystem

Project Coyote Website
Scroll down the page to see especially "Ecological Role"
Urban Coyote: Relationships with other Animals
Explores coyotes' and how they interact with other animals
Ecological Role of Coyotes, Bears, Mountain Lions, and Wolves
Coyotes
From National Geographic
Co-existing with Coyotes
From the MSPCA Website

Bees and Ecosystems

5 Ways Bees are Important to an Environment
Why are Bees Important?
Bee Deaths
National Geographic article
Study: Some Chemicals Harm Bee Colonies, Some Don't
From National Geographic
Bees and Diseases
From National Geographic
Bees and Colony Collapse Disorder
From Facts for Kids Website

Food Webs

What is a Food Web?
National Geographic
What Happens when Something in a Food Chain Goes Extinct?
Explains disruptions in a food chain
What Happens when Something Becomes Extinct?

Sea Otters

Sea Otters, Urchin, and Kelp
From Newsela

General Info: Predators Being Removed from Ecosystem

What Happens when the Top Predator is Removed from an Ecosystem?
Wolves of Yellowstone
What happens when a predator is removed from an ecosystem?
Keystone Species
Species that affect a whole ecosystem

Birds in an Ecosystem

Red-Tailed Hawks Leaving an Ecosystem
Causes and Effects
Owls Leaving an Ecosystem
Causes and Effects
Why are Birds of Prey Important?
Red Tailed Hawk
National Geographic Website

Bacteria and Ecosystems

Life Would Go On if All Bacteria Disappeared
Bacteria's effect on ecosystems
Dead Stuff: the Secret Ingredient in our Food Chain
Information about the Food Chain
From Microbiology Online, scroll down to decomposers
Food Chain
National Geographic Website, scroll down to section on trophic levels

What We Can Do to Help

Activist Greta Thunberg Speech on Climate Change
Green Tips for Kids
Tips for kids from National Geographic

Bates Library Databases

Link to Bates Library Databases
Power Knowledge Science Databases (password: bates1) has info on deforestation, climate change, animal habitats and ecosystems

Librarian

Epic Book Collection

Epic! Collection
Books and videos about ecosystems and the animals in them.

DDT and Other Pesticides

DDT and the Osprey
From the New Hampshire PBS Website
4 Important Animals that Mosquito Blowers are Harming
From Breda Website

Deforestation

Deforestation for Kids

Red Foxes

Fox Hunting
All about foxes hunting from the Foxes World Website
Endangered Wildlife: Foxes
Read Enemies and Endangerment section
All About Red Foxes
Facts about foxes