Food Web
The main energy source for all things
What is the sun?
Define invasive species
What is a non-native plant or animal that moves into another ecosystem and competes for food, shelter, and reproduction opportunities?
Humans get nutrients by
What is eating healthy foods and vitamins?
What is methylmercury?
Animals that eat other animals?
What is a carnivore?
An aquatic producer
What is green algae, blue green algae, hydrilla, diatoms? a.k.a phytoplankton
This species attaches to fish and sucks their blood leaving them to die
What is a sea lamprey?
This is not lost as they are passed through a food chain
What are nutrients?
A yellow perch contains more mercury than a muskie
What is False?
Animals that eat both plants and animals
What are omnivores?
Example of a zooplankton
What is diporia, daphnia, copepod, and more
This species competes for native resources and reduces top predators by consuming their eggs, they reproduce very quickly and are found on the bottom of lake
What is the round goby?
This is lost as it is passed through the food chain
What is energy?
Mercury enters into the Great Lakes by
What is the atmosphere like from factories, medical waste, and batteries? When it rains, the water enters the lakes as runoff, and water absorption into the ground leads to mercury in the lakes.
Organisms that eat dead organisms
What is a decomposer?
An example of a secondary consumer
What is larger fish: yellow perch, white bass, alewives, and some crayfish
These species were released by science classes when they were done having them as pets
What is the rusty crayfish?
Animals high in the food chain have to make up for energy loss, How
What is using less energy, and eating more animals that are lower in the food chain?
Give One reason mercury is bad in the Great Lakes
What is hinder the reproduction of fish or neurotoxin for humans who eat top predators?
Organisms that can make their own food
What is a producer?
The 5 parts/levels of a food web
What are energy sources, phytoplankton, zooplankton, forager fish, and predator fish?
Large numbers of these species die at a time clogging intake pipes and contaminating beaches
What are alewives?
When the amount of energy used is equal to or less than the amount of energy entering the system.
What is a stable system?
How to stop mercury from getting into the Great Lakes
What is limit factories, dispose of batteries and light bulbs appropriately?
The study of relationships between organisms and their environment
What is ecology?