Animal Food Chains
The order in which organisms depend upon each other for food
What is a food chain?
A habitat located near the equator that has large amounts of rainfall and is warm or hot.
What is the tropical rainforest?
A habitat that is very hot and dry with very little rainfall and few plants.
What is a desert?
A habitat with a moderate climate with rich soil and tall grasses.
Bonus 100 pts: what is another name for this habitat?
What is a temperate grassland?
Bonus: prairie
This habitat contains little or no salt; rivers, lakes, swamps
Bonus 200 pts: Give an example of a producer in this habitat
What is a freshwater habitat?
Bonus: grass, lily pads, water plants, algae, cat tails
A characteristic of a living thing that helps it survive in its environment
What is an adaptation?
An organism that eats other organisms to obtain energy
What is a consumer?
You might spot a tiger, a poison dart frog and a toucan in this habitat.
What is a tropical rainforest?
This habitat covers the very North part (top) and the very South part (bottom) of planet Earth.
What are polar habitats?
A habitat similar to temperate grasslands, but is located close to the equator and is much hotter and has a rainy season.
What is a savannah?
In which habitat do these animals live: frog, alligator, trout, heron, beaver
What is a freshwater habitat?
An animal that obtains its food by killing and eating other animals
What is a predator?
The scientific words for 1) "living" and 2) "non"-living
What are 1) biotic and 2) abiotic
A habitat with both warm and cold seasons with deciduous trees such as oak, maple and birch.
What is a temperate forest?
Name 3 animals that live in the polar habitat.
Bonus 200 pts. for one of the animals named, give one predator of that animal and one prey for that animal
Possible answers: penguin, polar bear, seal, blue whale, snowy owl, arctic fox, arctic wolf, reindeer, walrus.
Bonus example: arctic fox - polar bear and wolf are predators, mouse, fish and birds are prey
Which habitat has a wide variety of very large animals?
Name at least 3.
Examples: lion, elephant, gazelle, zebra, giraffe, water buffalo
Which habitat covers almost 75% of Earth's surface?
What is the ocean habitat?
An animal that is eaten by another animal for food
What is prey?
An organism that feeds on and breaks down dead plant or animal matter
What is a decomposer?
These trees lose their leaves in the fall and winter.
What are deciduous trees?
A habitat in the arctic that has a permanently frozen layer of soil and no trees.
What is the tundra?
What do tall trees not grow in the prairies?
There is not enough rainfall.
This is the uppermost layer of the ocean
What is the sunlit layer?
Some animals use this adaptation to survive cold winters by seeking protection in a cave or deep burrow
What is hibernation?
Bonus: name an animal that hibernates
An organism that creates its own energy from sunlight through photosynthesis
What is a producer?
This layer of the tropical rainforest has very dense trees, branches and leaves that almost completely cover the two layers below it.
What is the canopy layer?
Explain how the arctic fox is well adapted to its habitat.
The arctic fox has white fur that blends with ice and snow in winter (camouflage), they have a very warm thick fur coat and fur between their toes, they seek shelter from the icy cold by burrowing under snow in dens.
This habitat is frequently used for farming.
What is temperate grassland or prairie?
This is the edge of a continent covered by shallow ocean water
What is a continental shelf?
Some animals use this adaptation to disguise themselves to blend in to their surroundings
What is camouflage?
Bonus: name an animal that uses camouflage
A community of organisms where there are several overlapping food chains with different pathways for the flow of food energy in a habitat
What is a food web?
A mountain habitat sometimes called a coniferous forest, with cone-producing trees such as pine, fir and spruce.
What is a boreal forest or taiga?
Give an example of a food chain in the desert.
Bonus: state whether each one is producer, consumer or decomposer
Possible answers: cactus - mouse - snake - hawk
producer, consumer, consumer, consumer
Give an example of a food chain in the temperate grasslands.
Grass - mouse - snake - owl - bald eagle
These are warm water vents created when water heated by volcanic activity sprouts from under the seabed.
What are hydrothermal vents?
Some animals avoid cold or warm temperatures by traveling to a different habitat to raise their young or find food
What is migration?
Bonus: name an animal that migrates