Food Chains
In any food chain, what ALWAYS comes after the sun?
Why do living things eat?
To get energy.
Removing waste from the ocean is considered a disruption to the ecosystem or a protection? And why?
What is the name of the process in which plants make their own food?
Photosynthesis.
What is a producer?
a living thing that makes its own food.
What would you call the first organism to eat a producer?
PRIMARY CONSUMER
To move, to keep warm, to repair damage, to grow and reproduce.
In the following food chain, what would happen if the fox was removed? Grass-mice-fox
There would be a lot of mice and a very little grass left.
What are the three things it takes for the chemical reaction of photosynthesis to occur?
Water, sunlight, carbon dioxide.
How do producers make their own food?
Through photosynthesis. It takes sunlight, water and carbon dioxide to produce sugar, oxygen and oxygen.
If there are no arrows pointing AWAY from an organism in a food chain, what does that mean?
It means nothing eats that particular organism.
Chemical reactions are always happening inside living things. This ongoing energy use is known as ....
Metabolism
This event can displace animals to another place.
Invasive species
What is the name of the microscopic pores in plants? (It is where they take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen.)
Stomata
What would happen if we didn't have decomposers?
Nutrients wouldn't be returned to the soil. Dead plant and animal matter would pile up.
What is the difference between a food web and a food chain?
Food webs are multiple connected food chains in an ecosystem.
Name 4 things that make all living things considered alive.
Breathe or respire, reproduce, move, sense changes in the environment, get rid of waste, take in nutrients, grow.
This event involves cutting down trees to make more room for building house and roads etc..
Deforestation.
How do plants gain weight or matter?
Plants gain weight or matter for taking in air.
What is the job of a scavenger and give me one example of a scavenger.
A vulture and scavengers eat dead plant and animal matter.
If I removed the big fish from the following food chain, what would happen?
Phytoplankton---zooplankton----small fish-----big fish-----shark----whale
The Shark wouldn't have anything to eat, there would be more small fish and less zooplankton.
What does excretion mean?
The ability to get rid of waste.
Describe one disruption to the ecosystem and how it affects that ecosystem.
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Name 4 uses for plants. What are 4 ways we use plants today?
For food, for materials like clothes, for oxygen, for medicine, to prevent erosion etc.
Give me an example of a food chain with a producer, 2 consumers and a decomposer.
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