“Mystery Box Questions”
1. What mystery did you solve? (This is the goal or objective of activity.)
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2. Explain the first task you did with the items in your “Mystery Box.”
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3. Explain the second task you did with the items in your “Mystery Box.”
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4. What is the ecosystem of the organisms in the “Mystery Box”?
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5. What interactions or relationships are there in this ecosystem?
6. Are there any competitions that could occur in this ecosystem?
7. What are the wide or narrow niches in this ecosystem?
8. What would happen if the ecosystem was infected by disease or destroyed by
humans?
9. What are the interactions that these organisms have with nonliving things?
10. What are the resources that these organisms have in their ecosystem?
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