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Roles
Whale Bone Ecosystem
Scavaging
Biotic or Abiotic?
African Forest Ecosystem
100
Green plants and algae are:
producers
100
Crabs eat dead things in this ecosystem. What is their role in the Whale-bone ecosystem?
scavenger
100
Name a scavenger in our ecosystems here in Memphis.
earth worm, buzzards, etc.
100
Name two abiotic factors that you might find in the woods around here.
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100
What is this drawing called?
a food web
200
A jackal, a cat, a snake, an eagle, and a lion are all:
predators
200
What bones of the whale make up this ecosystem?
vertebrae or backbone; ribs
200
What is a scavenger in the African forest? [It is not shown on the food web.]
vulture, ant, earthworm
200
Grass
biotic
200
What are producers in the African forest?
green plants
300
A rabbit and a gazelle are:
herbivores
300
What kind of whale made this ecosystem?
Minke whales
300
How does a scavenger receive energy differently than a predator?
Scavengers eat things already dead; predators kill and eat.
300
!!DAILY DOUBLE!! Look at the picture and identify it as biotic or abiotic.
biotic
300
If producers are removed from an ecosystem, why will all organisms be affected.
There will be no food for all organisms.
400
If the mouse ate green plants AND INSECTS it would be:
an omnivore
400
Where were these organisms found?
São Paulo Ridge, 13,000 feet under the Atlantic Ocean
400
What animal flies, is ugly and lives as a scavanger?
a vulture (buzzard)
400
a whale that has just died
abiotic
400
!!DAILY DOUBLE!! Draw a food CHAIN from the food web projected. [Remember to begin with a producer and use arrows to show where the energy goes.]
MANY ANSWERS
500
In any land ecosystem, decomposers will include:
fungi and bacteria
500
Besides crustaceans (crabs, lobsters, etc.) what is another scavenger found in this ecosystem?
Sleeper Sharks
500
Organisms that break down bone lipids and emit hydrogen sulphide are:
decomposers
500
What is abiotic in this ecosystem [even though we don't see any.]?
rocks, air, temperature, humidity, rainfall, etc.
500
What is an ecosystem?
Living things interacting in their abiotic enviornment