DAY 3 Warmup/Vocab: Food Webs

Vocab and Concept Mastery

but first, a WARM UP!

Inherited traits vs. learned behaviors

• Inherited traits are characteristics that are passed down form parents to child, or from plant to plant.

• Learned behaviors are characteristics that are learned in life as a form of survival or habit.

Multiple Choice

Some traits and behaviors are learned and some are inherited. Which of the following traits are inherited?

• Speaking spanish

• Bird saying hello

• Cat using a litter box

• Spines on a cactus

Multiple Choice

The class has a pet hamster that runs inside a large, plastic ball that moves around the room.

Students construct an obstacle course and watch a hamster successfully navigate the course each time. Students conclude this is-

• an inherited trait

• a learned behavior

• a structure

• a function

Now for some FOOD WEB Vocab Review

Let's test your knowledge of food webs, think you can hang?

Multiple Choice

An interconnected set of food chains is also called a

• herd

• food web

• flock

• carnivores

Open Ended

Plants are always __________ and get their energy from the _______ through photosynthesis.

Multiple Choice

Consumers can be carnivores, herbivores and omnivores.

• true

• false

Multiple Select

Decomposers are organisms that break down dead plants and animals and can be (select all that apply):

• mushrooms

• cats

• earth worms

• phytoplankton

• fish

Multiple Select

Analyze the picture closely.

Now, select all the consumers that are ALSO HERBIVORES:

• TOAD

• GRASSHOPPER

• MOUSE

• RABBIT

• RYEGRASS

Multiple Choice

Carnivores are secondary and tertiary consumers.

• sometimes

• always

• never

Multiple Choice

omnivores can be secondary consumers.

• true

• false