Visualize food webs showing feeding relationships and energy flow through ecosystems. Explore trophic levels from producers (autotrophs capturing solar energy) through primary consumers (herbivores), secondary consumers (carnivores), tertiary consumers, and decomposers. Understand the 10% rule where only about 10% of energy transfers between trophic levels, explaining why food chains rarely exceed 4-5 levels and why biomass pyramids taper toward top predators.
Operate a Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR). Control the fission chain reaction using control rods and monitor core temperatures to prevent a nuclear meltdown.
Examine tectonic plate interactions. Select Divergent, Convergent, or Transform boundaries to visualize mantle convection driving lithospheric drift.
Analyze the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Toggle between Normal, El Niño, and La Niña phases to observe shifting trade winds, ocean temperatures, and upwelling.
Observe global wind patterns across the Earth's cross-section. Toggle the Coriolis effect to see how the Earth's rotation deflects the Trade Winds and Westerlies within the Hadley, Ferrel, and Polar cells.