Vocab
An animal that hunts and eats the hunted.
Predator
Place the food chain in increasing order:
-mouse
-dead leaves
-cricket
-crow
dead leaves --> cricket ---> mouse --> crow
the image of animals that are dependent on the next source of food
food chain
Place the food chain in decreasing order
- House cat
- robin
- butterflies
-web spinning spider
cat --> robin --> spider --> butterflies
What are the two questions you ask when evaluating something on the food chain?
What does it eat?, What is it eaten by?
Here is the food chain: rotting log --> snail --> robin. If I wanted to get rid of a snail infestation in my garden, what would I need to remove from the food chain?
Remove rotting logs
Define Carnivore
An animal that only eats meat or other animals
Here is the food chain:
dead leaves --> pill bug --> mole --> hawk
What would happen if the hawk was removed from the food chain? There is more than one correct answer
- moles would over populate
-too many moles would mean pill bugs would all get eaten and there would not be enough left for the moles to eat
-there would be many more dead leaves because there are no more pill bugs left to eat the dead leaves
Define herbivore
an animal that feeds only on plants.
What does extinct mean?
no longer in existence