Food Web
Overlapping food chains that show the flow of energy
What is a food web?
In a food chain, this organism uses sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water to make food.
What is: a producer?
All living organisms in an ecosystem
What is a community?
the role an animal plays in the food web, what eats it, what it eats
What is a niche?
In a food chain where the energy begins
What is: sun/producers
In an ecosystem , this is the same organism living at the same time in the same place
What is population?
All living and nonliving things in an area
What is an ecosystem?
A consumer who eats producers
What are: herbivores
Each organism's actual home which provides food, water, shelter, and space
What is a habitat?
all communities get energy from this
What is: the sun?
What happens if the tree that a bird uses for food dies out?
The bird will die out and so will the organisms that eat the bird
The job or function that an organism performs in the food web of a community
What is niche?
What are: producers
The blue crab and sea gull of the Chesapeake bay eat the seahorse . The seahorse eats phytoplankton. If the seahorse gets a disease and they die off, what will happen?
blue crab and sea gull will die out, phytoplankton will get too thick
Where do herbivores get their energy from?
What are: plants
In the Chesapeake Bay, this negative human impact is causing the oyster population to decline.
What is: pollution?
The blue crabs of the chesapeake bay are an example of this
What are:populations