Food Webs
Ecology
Pollution
Extra
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1. Who is the producer in the image?
The algae
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6. What is a consumer?
A species that eats other species
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11. How does pollution affect biodiversity?
Decreases it, as it makes living and reproducing more difficult for animals. It can also limit their habitats
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16. What does a Carnivore eat?
Meat
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2. Who competes for the algae in the image?
The insect and the snail
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7. What is a producer?
A species that makes its own food (plants)
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12. What is an invasive species?
A species that is introduces onto an environment and typically has an advantage when competing for resources.
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17. What does a Herbivore eat?
Plants
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3. Who is the top predator in the image?
The Alligator
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8. What is the difference between a primary and secondary consumer?
A primary consumer eats a producer. A secondary consumer eats the primary consumer (ex. a fox eats a rabbit. An eagle who eats the fox would be a tertiary consumer)
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13. What is overharvesting/overfishing?
Taking of fish, faster than they can reproduce. (meaning they can't recover their numbers)
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18. What does a omnivore eat?
Both plants and animals
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4. How would you describe a human on the food web?
(Bonus points for both answers)
A consumer and an omnivore
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9. A decrease in producers (plants) will do what to the primary consumer(animals)?
They would also decrease in population
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14. What is an artificial reef?
A man made structure that provides a habitat (substrate) for coral to grow and fish to live in
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19. What will the creation of a dam do to a fish's habitat?
Change/ destroy it, or harm it in another way
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5. What does the arrow represent on a food web? And where does the arrow point to? (To the consumer or the prey?)
The flow of energy, and it points to the one doing the eating
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10. Define or give an example of competition
2 animals that compete for the same resource (Ex. a fox and a coyote will compete for a rabbit)
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15 Why is runoff bad?
It takes nutrients from fertilizers on farms and dumps them into the ocean, causing an algal bloom which will remove the oxygen from the water
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20. Why is it beneficial for a plant to grow taller?
They can reach more sunlight. In a forest plants compete for sunlight, as if they are too short they will be covered in the shadows of taller trees.