Design a complete ecosystem that would sustain a number of living organisms for several years in a sealed container

The only thing that can be added is sunlight. Explain why you have selected each organism. What will be an ideal response?


Concepts to Consider: Include producers (plant), consumers (animal), and decomposers (heterotrophic bacteria and fungi); plants convert sunlight to organic energy, animals
consume the plants, and decomposers recycle nutrients within the dead plants and animals;
animal and bacterial wastes are taken up by plants.

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