Animal Classifications
This physical feature is the main reason scientists separate vertebrates from invertebrates.
What are backbones?
This term describes the variety of living things found in a specific area.
What is biodiversity
This term describes how living things affect and depend on each other and their environment.
What are interactions
These organisms make their own food using energy from the Sun.
What are producers?
This is what forms when multiple food chains interact
What is a food web?
Whales and dolphins are are this classification of animal
What are mammals
Forests, deserts, wetlands, and grasslands are examples of this.
What are ecosystems?
A relationship where one animal eats another is called this.
What is predation
These are the 3 main types of consumers.
What are herbivores, carnivores and omnivores?
In the food chain algae → fish → seal, the seal is this type of consumer.
What is a secondary consumer?
An animal with scales, breaths through lungs, lay eggs, do not look after their young, and are cold blooded are a part of this group
What are reptiles?
This level of biodiversity refers to the different kinds of species living in an ecosystem.
What is species diversity
What is food, water, oxygen, energy, shelter?
These consumers feed on dead plants or animals.
What are scavengers?
A hawk eats a snake, the snake eats a mouse, and the mouse eats seeds. This shows energy moving through an ecosystem in this order.
What is a producer → primary consumer → secondary consumer → tertiary consumer?
An animal that starts life in water with gills and later develops lungs would be classified in this group.
What are amphibians
Two forests have the same number of species, but one forest has many individuals of each species while the other has only a few. This difference describes this type of biodiversity.
What is genetic diversity
When two organisms both benefit from their relationship, it is called this type of interaction.
What is mutualism?
If producers in an ecosystem decrease, this will most directly affect this group of organisms first.
What are primary consumers?
If we started with 1000 joules of energy, this level in the food chain would receive 100 joules
What are secondary consumers?
These are the 5 characteristics I taught you about insects.
What have 2 antennae, live in colonies, have 3 body parts, have 6 legs, and are cold blooded?
This describes why biodiversity is important in an ecosystem.
What is it helps ecosystems stay healthy and balanced?
A change in the population of one species can directly affect this system in an ecosystem.
What is a food web (or food chain)?
This is Ms. Johnstone's favourite type of consumer.
What are decomposers?
In a lake ecosystem, algae capture energy from the Sun. Only a small amount of that energy is available to small fish, and even less is available to large fish. As a result, there are many algae, fewer small fish, and very few large fish.
This pattern is best explained by this concept.
What is the energy pyramid?