Food Chains and Food Webs
Write down the single "Producer" from this list of Scottish wildlife: Red Deer, Thistle, Golden Eagle, Red Squirrel
Thistle
Write down the name of the energy source that plants must have to carry out photosynthesis.
Light Energy (Or Sunlight Energy)
What is the scientific word for the natural place or environment where a plant or animal lives?
Habitat
You want to find out what types of small, crawling insects live on a woodland floor. Write down the name of the specific trap you would dig into the ground to catch them.
Pitfall trap
Draw a complete food chain using the three living things below. Make sure your arrows point in the correct direction to show energy flow: Scottish Wildcat, Grass, Field Vole
Grass --> Field Vole --> Scottish Wildcat
What do plants need to carry out photosynthesis?
Water and Carbon Dioxide (accept CO2)
Bonus 50 points if you also got BOTH
Chlorophyll and Sunlight
A red squirrel spends its life surrounded by tall pine trees, like those found in the Cairngorms National Park. What one word describes this specific type of habitat?
Woodland (or Forest)
You need to estimate how many daisies are growing in the school playing field. Write down the name of the square frame you place on the grass to count the plants inside it.
Quadrat
Algae is eaten by water fleas. Water fleas are eaten by stickleback fish. Brown trout eat the sticklebacks. Write down the name of the Secondary Consumer.
Stickleback (or Stickleback fish)
Write down the name of the food substance the plant makes.
Glucose (Or Sugar)
The Ptarmigan is a Scottish bird that lives on high, snowy mountain tops. In winter, its feathers change from speckled brown to completely white. Write down the biological term for this adaptation that helps it hide from eagles.
Camouflage
When setting up a pitfall trap, a student places a flat stone raised on small pebbles slightly above the open cup. Write down one weather condition this "roof" protects the trapped insects from.
Rain (accept flooding, drowning) OR Sun (accept heat, drying out)
Pine Martens are predators that eat squirrels. If a disease suddenly killed the all the Pine Martens, draw an arrow (↑ or ↓) to predict what will happen to the squirrel population, and write one word explaining why.
↑ (Up arrow) and a word like "Predators" (accept variations like less hunted, survival, or safer).
Leaves are green because they contain a special chemical that traps light energy. Write down the name of this green pigment.
Chlorophyll
Camels survive in the desert because they are adapted well to living there. Name one of these adaptations.
Wide, flat feet to stop them from sinking into the soft sand.
Long eyelashes and slit nostrils to keep out blowing desert sand.
A hump that stores fat, which can be broken down into energy and water when food is scarce.
A student throws a quadrat just one single time in a massive sports field, counts 3 buttercups, and then packs up to go home. Write down what they should have done to make their final estimate of the whole field much more reliable.
Throw it more times (accept repeat the experiment, take more samples, or calculate an average).
Draw a mini food web on your board using all four of these Scottish organisms: Heather, Red Grouse, Mountain Hare, and Golden Eagle.
Both the grouse and the hare eat the heather.
The eagle hunts both the grouse and the hare.
Heather written at the bottom with two separate arrows pointing to Red Grouse and Mountain Hare. Two more arrows starting from both the Grouse and the Hare, pointing to the Golden Eagle at the top.
Plants convert the glucose they make into a food storage. Write down the name of this food storage substance AND the name of the chemical solution you would use in a lab experiment to test a leaf for it.
Starch and Iodine
Name at least five animals that live in the arctic habitat.
Polar bear, walrus, arctic fox, husky dog, reindeer
A student is using a quadrat to sample dandelions. Instead of looking for the biggest patch of dandelions and placing the square there, they close their eyes and place the quadrat down gently gently over their shoulder. Write down the mathematical word that describes this type of unbiased sampling.
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