Spotlight Liberty Science

Spotlight Liberty is a cross-curricular multimedia endeavor incorporating science, social studies, gifted and talented/humanities, technology, and language arts. This is a food web that was designed by students to show the different energy levels in an ecosystem. These different species of animals are the local wildlife around Liberty. The main source of energy in an ecosystem is the sun. The sun gives energy to everything. The outer layer of the food web are the producers. The producers give the consumers energy. The next layer of smaller consumers give the bigger consumers energy. It all leads up to the bobcat. Without this flow of all the different energy levels the animals would not survive. If it wasn't for the consumers eating the producers or the bigger consumers eating the smaller consumers, then different species would over populate.

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Topography

For this project we compared the topography of Liberty and the surrounding areas to the area of Big Bend National Park.

In Liberty's area there are a lot of marshes and rivers. Big Bend is mostly desert, meaning it is very dry. In Big Bend there is very little vegetation. If you study a topographical map there are not many elevation changes in Liberty. In the Big Bend Region there are extreme elevation changes; it is very mountainous. The Liberty area is very populated, where Big Bend is not. Big Bend only has one major highway which leads to two secondary highways. Click on the images below to see a larger map.

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