Students will learn about the plants and animals living in Grand Canyon National Park as well as the adaptations that help them survive.
This is a five hour ecology program that focuses on interrelationships between living and non-living components in the Grand Canyon environment. Students learn about biological and ecological concepts such as adaptations, niches, and life cycles through role-playing games and hands-on activities while walking along 1.5 miles of the canyon rim. The life of a Grand Canyon ecosystem is literally a "life on the edge."
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Did You Know?
The more recent Kaibab limestone caprock, on the rims of the Grand Canyon, formed 270 million years ago. In contrast, the oldest rocks within the Inner Gorge at the bottom of Grand Canyon date to 1.84 billion years ago. Geologists currently set the age of Earth at 4.5 billion years.