Analyzing Feeding Relationships

Feeding Relationships

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All living things are connected to other organisms.
Both plants and animals provide resources that humans need.
You may eat meat from a variety of animals.
You get food and fiber from plants.
Humans also provide resources to some animals
blood to mosquito
Social interactions
you laugh with your friends or play fetch with your dog.

Multiple Choice

How would lions have a relationship with feeding in the savanna

• By scavenging for food in the forest
• By feeding on aquatic animals in the ocean
• By consuming only plants and fruits
• By hunting targeting large herbivores like zebras and wildebeests.

Multiple Choice

How do Koala's interact with feeding relationships?

• Koalas primarily feed on bananas.
• Koalas primarily feed on pizza.
• Koalas primarily feed on ice cream.
• Koalas primarily feed on eucalyptus leaves.

Multiple Choice

Why are Flamingo's pink color show a relationship with their food and environment

• Flamingos' pink color is due to their love for pink flowers
• Flamingos' pink color shows a relationship with their food and environment due to the presence of red algae and shrimp in their diet and habitat.

• Flamingos' pink color is a result of their preference for pink water
• Flamingos' pink color is due to their exposure to pink sunlight

Feeding Interactions between Organisms

• Feeding interactions and relationships are important connections between organisms.

• Organisms need the energy and nutrients provided by food to survive.

• Plants make their own food driven by energy from the sun.

• Animals must eat other organisms to get energy and nutrients.

• Some animals eat plants, some eat other animals, and some eat both.

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How do organisms interact with other organisms

• Animals

• Plants

• Some plants and animals

eat other organisms to get energy

make their own food

eat other organisms

• eat other organisms to get energy

• make their own food

• eat other organisms

The Platypus: Weird, Wild, and a Top Predator!

With its toothless duck-like bill, webbed feet, and cat-sized furry body, you might be surprised to learn that the platypus is a feisty predator.
A predator is an animal that captures and eats other animals.
The platypus is a carnivore, an organism that feeds exclusively on animal flesh.
Its prey, or hunted food source, includes shellfish, worms, insects, and fish larvae.
Most carnivores have sharp teeth to hold or rip their prey.

Predators Eat Prey

But platypuses use gravel scooped up with their water-dwelling prey to grind food into small pieces. As with other carnivores, the number of platypuses in an area depends on the availability of prey. Factors that limit the number of prey therefore limit the number of platypuses.

Multiple Choice

What is predator?

• An organism that naturally captures on others for food.

• A type of musical instrument
• A type of weather phenomenon
• A type of plant

Multiple Choice

What Is prey?

• An animal that is hunted and killed by another for food.
• A type of musical instrument
• A type of weather phenomenon
• A type of plant

Multiple Choice

Which is a carnivore?

• Lion

• Giraffe

• Kangaroo

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The spider and platypus are both ​

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 The worms and insects are both ​

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Herbivores: The Plant-Munching Crew

• Picky Eaters: Some herbivores only eat specific plants or plant parts.

• Gorillas and Butterflies: Gorillas munch leaves, butterflies sip nectar – all from plants!

• Algae: The Ocean's Superfood: Tiny algae use sunlight/photosynthesis to make their own food.

• Powering the food chain: Algae feed those crabs and shellfish, which bigger animals then eat!

Multiple Choice

What is a herbivore?

• An animal that primarily feeds on air.
• An animal that primarily feeds on plants or parts of plants.

• An animal that primarily feeds on metal.
• An animal that primarily feeds on rocks.

Multiple Choice

Algae are unicellular or multicellular organisms that can make their own food through

• chemosynthesis
• respiration
• mitosis
• photosynthesis

The Predator-Prey Connection

• Lunch = Energy: Animals eat to survive.

• More Impalas = More Cheetah Energy: A bigger prey population supports healthy predators.

• No Food? No Cheetahs: When food gets scarce, it can put entire predator populations in danger.

Multiple Choice

What can happen to predator with out enough prey?

• Predators may starve or have to travel further distances to find food.
• Predators will become herbivores to survive.
• Predators will form alliances with other predators to share food.
• Predators will thrive due to less competition for food.

It's All About Energ

• Cats vs. Mice: When mice get out of control, cats save the day!

• Cheetahs and Impalas: Conservationists boost Impala numbers to help endangered cheetahs.

• The Energy Seesaw: When prey populations go up or down, it impacts the predators.

Multiple Choice

What can happen to prey without enough predators?

• Migration to a new habitat
• Decrease in population
• No effect on population
• Increase in population