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Welcome to Our Ecology Wiki! You are going to be exploring food chains today. Your first task is to watch the following video about food chains.

Food Chains Video

After you watch the video, please
 * Use this site to answer the following questions:**
 * 1) Where does all our energy come from? ﻿ ﻿Our energy comes from the sun.
 * 2) How is a secondary consumer different from a primary consumer? Secondary consumers are diffrent from primary comsumers because secoundary consumers get their nutrients by eating primary consumers because of the nutriants the primary consumers get.
 * 3) Is a grasshopper a producer or a consumer? Pruducers because it eats plants.
 * 4) When is a food chain short? When you do a food chain of scavengers.
 * 5) Name three scavengers. Three diffrent scavengers are a bush dog, bald eagles and cockrochesMichael (answers for number 5&6)
 * 6) Name three decomposers. Three diffrent decomposers are fungi bacteria and earth worms.
 * 7) Where do you fit into the food chain? We fit near the top of the food chain.
 * 8) What did you think of the Wiki today? I thoght Wiki was a fun educational moment of being able to vput something on the popular site where peoples ideas are posed on the web, now my ideas are shared.

Required Information: 1. Biome’s place on earth a. Where is it? b. What are its abiotic factors? c. What are the native plants and their adaptations to live there? d. What are the native animals and their adaptations to live there? e. Give examples of cooperation and competition between and among species in your biome. 2. Weather Report a. What is the average precipitation? b. What is the average temperature? c. What is the temperature range in your biome? d. What type of clothing and shelter would be required to survive in your biome? 3. Warnings a. What are some threats in this biome? b. Are there any endangered species? c. Is there a fear of climate change for this biome? d. What can we do to correct the threats to this biome? 4. Analysis/Evaluation a. Why is this biome globally important? b. What type of natural resources need to be monitored in this biome to preserve them?