Food Chains
What is a food chain?
A food chain is a line up of who eats who in nature. It represents the flow of energy.
What is an omnivore?
Something that eats both plants and animals.
What is a Decomposer?
Living things that break down down plants and animals when they die and return the nutrients back to the soil.
Food chains are divided into what 3 types of living things?
Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers.
A bear is an example of an _____________.
Omnivore
What are 3 ways we can protect plants and animals?
Don't harm them, don't scare them, don't kill them, keep track of populations, follow safety rules, and follow fishing and hunting rules.
What is a Keystone species?
A species in an ecosystem that other species heavily depend on. If these species are removed the ecosystem will change drastically.
What is one physical difference between carnivores and herbivores?
Herbivores have flat teeth and carnivores have sharp teeth. Herbivores have eyes on the side of their head and carnivores have eyes on the front of their heads.
Define Stimuli
Things in the environment that living things can sense