Food Chain
What is a food chain?
A food chain is a path that shows how much living thing gets food, and how nutrients and energy are passed from one living thing to another.
What is an ecosystem?
All the living and nonliving things in an environment that interact with each other.
What are the 3 types of consumers?
Carnivore
Herbivore
Omnivore
What does biotic mean and what is one example of a biotic thing in an ecosystem.
Living or used to be alive
Biotic : dead plants / animal , trees, grass, animals
Name an example of an extinct animal.
Mammoth, dinosaurs, Kiwi bird
What do all food chains start with?
The sun.
What is photosynthesis?
A process that describes how plants make food, by taking in carbon dioxide, sunlight and water.
What is an example of an herbivore?
A - Wolf
B - Giraffe
C - Tiger
B - Giraffe
What does abiotic mean and give one example.
Non living or was never alive
Abiotic: sunlight, soil, oxygen, rocks
How do plants or producers make their own food?
Photosynthesis
Where do all living things get their energy from?
The sun.
What does a carnivore eat?
Only meat
What do decomposers do for the environment?
They clean up the waste and garbage in the environment.
Which of the following is a biotic factor?
a - Human
b - Sunlight
c - Rocks
A - Human
What does it mean if an animal is enDANGERed?
They are enDANGERed of becoming extinct.
Give me one example of a type of ecosystem
Examples: Ocean, desert, rainforest, artic
What does an herbivore eat?
Only plants
What is one example of each type of consumer?
Carnivore: Wolf, Lion, bob cat
Herbivore: Cow, giraffe, zebra
Omnivore: Skunk, bear, turtle
Which of the following is an abiotic factor?
A - Oxygen
B - Tiger
C - Giraffe
A - Oxygen
how do they become extinct?
They become extinct because they are dying off.
If you took the plant or producer out of a food chain, what would happen to the other animals that rely on the producer?
They would die because they would not get the right amount of energy needed to survive.
What does an omnivore eat?
Both meat and plants
What are the differences between a carnivore, herbivore, and omnivore?
Carnivore: Only eats meat
Herbivore: Only eats plants
Omnivore: Eats both meat and plants
Are dead trees and animals biotic or abiotic?
Biotic
What kind of food do the plants / producers make?
Sugar / glucose