Food Webs Day 2

Food Webs Day 2

Today you will learn more about Food Webs AND analyzing how they can be disrupted.

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Short Answer Question:

The energy inside you came from the Sun. 

How does energy get from the Sun to inside your body?

Read the short sample describing how energy flows through food chains. This will be page 102 in your binder.

Read

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Short Answer Question:

What happens to the energy humans use to keep their bodies at a temperature of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit?

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Short Answer Question:

Why isn’t energy trapped in the tissues of dead plants and animals?

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Short Answer Question:

Why do we use the pyramid shape to describe the different amounts of energy in each trophic level?

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Write a paragraph (4 sentences) summarizing the flow of energy as it travels from the Sun to humans through a food chain.

You may want to include the following sentence stems:

Plants are the foundation of the food chain because they…

Not all of the energy from our food is stored in our bodies because…

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Short Answer Question:

How does the biomass pyramid on the left compare to the energy pyramid on the right?

Read the short sample describing how matter flows through food chains. This will be page 103 in your binder.

Read

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Short Answer Question:

How do nutrients found in dead plants and animals make it back into the food chain?

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Short Answer Question:

Based on this passage, explain the phrase, “You are what you eat.”

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Short Answer Question:

Why do organisms store such a small percentage of what they eat in their bodies?

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Write a paragraph (4 sentences) summarizing the flow of matter through the food chains.

You may want to include the following sentence stems:

Plants produce organic compounds during…

Consumers are only able to store a small amount of biomass because…

Decomposers are important to ecosystems because…

You will now play Blooket. You will review plants - the goal is to get your Cafe to stay open for at least 7 days. Use pages 85-91 in your binder for help. Go to the next slide to access Blooket.

Play Blooket

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