Daminique

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? ﻿ Energy comes from eating food.
 * 2) How is a secondary consumer different from a primary consumer? There are seconddary consumers eat the primary concumers.
 * 3) Is a grasshopper a producer or a consumer? Grasshoppers are concumer because grass hoppers eat plants.
 * 4) When is a food chain short? Food chains only tend to be short if the primary consumer is a very large animal with few preadators.
 * 5) Name three scavengers. Scavengers are crow, magpie, and foxes are scavengers.
 * 6) Name three decomposers. Decomposers are Maggots, larve, and fungi.
 * 7) Where do you fit into the food chain? Hummans are at the top of the food chain.

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__Biome Project __

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?