Food Chains/Food Webs
This organism captures light from the sun and turns it into food.
What is a producer?
Name one way we could reduce our environmental impact on ecosystems:
(Answers Vary) Examples:
- recycling
- laws protecting land
- not polluting air/water/land
Organisms that eat only plants.
What is a herbivore?
True
Living and nonliving things interacting.
What is an ecosystem?
The organisms in food chains that eat other living things.
What is a consumer?
Increased construction around an animals habitat may cause this.
What is decline in population?
Organisms that eat only other animals.
What is a carnivore?
An animals niche can change during their life cycle, but this cannot.
What is its habitat?
All organisms of the same species that live in the same area at the same time.
What is a population?
When food chains overlap.
What is a food web?
This species harms ecosystems by building homes, cities, roads, etc.
What are humans?
Organisms that eat both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
This is why jaguars, colorful birds, monkeys, and frogs all live in the jungle.
What are adaptations? (adapting to their environment)
Different populations of species that live together.
What is a community?
Plants and animals form food chains and webs to stay alive. (They depend on each other)
What is interdependency?
Pollution is dumped into a river from a factory causing the fish to die out. What happens to the animals that relied on the fish for a food source?
Their population may decline due to lack of food.
Organisms that eats/breaks down dead plants and animals.
What is a decomposer?
This happens when an animals looses their food source.
What is population decline?
Things apart of the same food chain/food web are an ___.
What is an ecosystem?
All food chains begin with this type of organism.
What is a producer?
A group of trees are cut down to make a new neighborhood. This will affect the birds and other animals that live there by:
What is loss of shelter/habitat?
An animals with sharp pointed teeth likely is a ____.
What is a carnivore?
A drought causes an ecosystem to turn into a desert. What will happen to the plants that once lived there?
Only the plants that can survive with little water will survive.
The four things a habitat provides.
What are food, water, shelter, and space?