Food Webs
An organism that makes its energy using the light from the sun
What is a producer?
In the deep ocean, this abiotic factor is almost completely absent, so many animals cannot do photosynthesis, or have to make their own.
What is sunlight?
This process uses carbon dioxide, water and sunlight to produce energy.
What is photosynthesis?
The process animals use to break down glucose and make energy.
What is cellular respiration?
This is the name of the man who taught us about salmon this morning.
Who is Peter?
An organism that eats other organisms for its energy
What is a consumer?
This abiotic factor causes cold, saltier water to sink and hot, less salty water to rise.
What is water density?
These chemicals are the products of photosynthesis.
What are glucose and oxygen?
The process diatoms use to make energy.
What is photosynthesis?
Where we are going for our field trip!
What is the MLK Shoreline?
An example of a microscopic decomposer.
What is bacteria?
This abiotic factor—how salty the water is—can affect what types of animals live in the ocean.
What is salinity?
What the mass of a tree primarily made from.
What is carbon dioxide?
(alternate acceptable answer: What is carbon?)
This is the name of the process yeast cells use to turn sugar and oxygen into energy.
What is cellular respiration?
All living things are made of these!
What are cells?
The consumer at the top of the food web that has no predators.
What is an apex predator?
This abiotic factor moves warm and cold water around the ocean and helps carry nutrients up from the bottom of the ocean.
What are ocean currents?
(Alternate acceptable answer: global conveyor belt)
Photosynthesis can only happen in the top layer of the ocean because it needs this abiotic factor.
Sunlight
This is the name of the waste product that yeast cells release?
Hint: It makes bread rise!
What is carbon dioxide?
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What do we need to wear on Friday for our field trip?
These organisms form the base of most marine food webs, converting sunlight into energy through photosynthesis.
What are Primary Producers (or autotrophs like phytoplankton)?
If this abiotic factor rises too much, coral can get stressed and "bleach," losing the algae they depend on.
What is ocean temperature?
To make their own food, ocean plants like seaweed and phytoplankton take in this gas from the water.
What is carbon dioxide, CO2?
Marine animals like fish need this gas to do cellular respiration and stay alive.
What is oxygen?
This is what we can do to help slow down climate change.
Stop using fossil fuels or plant more plants.