Sunny Meadows
Instructions:
1) Click the link and play the game simulation Sunny Meadows.
2) While you are playing the simulation please pay attention to the comments that are being made
at the bottom of the monitor.
3) Keep playing the game until you can reach a final score of 70 or higher.
4) After playing and scoring above 70 points with the Sunny Meadows game, complete the
following questions:
Questions to complete:
1) Competition for resources in an area is usually more intense within a single species than
between two different species. Suggest an explanation for this observation. (4-5
sentences)
2) Write a few sentences describing what you learned about managing a food chain with
the different species as the simulation progressed and you started getting better scores.
a. The fox population:
b. The rabbit population:
c. The producer situation:
3) After you achieve a score of 70 or higher, copy down the graph that the simulation gives
you:
4) Interpret your graph. What is happening? Explain the relation you see in the population
#’s of each of the organisms as time progressed?
5) Go back and play the game simulation again, before you do, tell what you could do to
better manage the populations and get a better score.
Did it work? If not write something else and keep making the changes until you achieve
your highest score.