Food Chain
What is a food chain?
How energy flows from one living thing to the other.
What is a food web?
A group of food chains within an ecosystem
What are the TWO types of animal adaptations?
Physical and behaviour adaptation
What is a vertebrate animal?
An animal that has a backbone, feed milk to their young, have hair or fur on their skin, have a developped brain.
Make a food chain with the following living things
mouse, seed, hawk, snake
seed, mouse, snake, hawk
Plant, grasshopper, frog, snake, eagle
A food web starts with_______?
A producer
Physical adaptation or Behaviour adaptation?
A duck with webbed feet to swim
Physical adaptation
What is a invertebrate animal?
An animal that has no backbone, no skelton, small brain, soft and small bodies.
An animal that hunts other animals for food?
A predator
What is the primary source of energy for plants?
The Sun
what is at the top of a food web?
A predator such as carnivore or an omnivore consumer.
Physical adaptation or Behaviour adaptation?
A bird migrating to a warmer place
Behaviour adaptation
What are the 5 types of vertebrate animals?
Birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish
All animals are producers or consumers?
Consumers
In a food chain, what kind of consumer is the primary consumer?
A herbivore.
Phsical adaptation or Behaviour adaptation?
A giraffe's long neck to eat from the top of a tree
Is jellyfish a vetebrate or invertebrate animal?
Invertebrate
A consumer could be _______ or ________ or ___________
Herbivore, carnivore, or omnivore,
Top predators are the highest on the food chain.
They can't be hunted by other animals just by humans.
What do predators hunt?
Phsical adaptation or Behaviour adaptation?
A bear hibernating (going into deep sleep to escape the winter)
Behaviour adaptation
What is the percentage of veterbates in the world?
4%
What does endangerment mean?
A species that is facing extinction.