Energy Flow, Adaptations and Genes

Energy Flow,
Adaptations and Genes

By Ms. Hernandez

Energy Flow in Ecosystems

Do Now Task

What do you think the arrows represent in this image?

Multiple Choice

What is a consumer? 

• Organism that creates their own food.
• Organism that eat other organisms for energy
• Organism that eat other dead organisms

Multiple Choice

What are plants called in a food chain?

• Producers
• Consumers
• Decomposers
• Scavengers

Multiple Choice

Where does the energy start in this food chain?

• Plant
• Sun
• Deer
• Wolf

Multiple Choice

The direction of the flow of energy in a food web is represented by ___.

• Light bulbs
• Dotted Lines
• Arrows
• Bubbles

Food Chains & Food Webs

Food Webs show all the Food Chains together within a specific ecosystem.

*Name a producer in this food web

*Which consumer feed on the Fruit Flies?

*What could be the impact if a the frog population died because of some illness?

Multiple Choice

The transfer of traits from one generation to another generation is known as ___________.

• Offspring

• Genetics

• Heredity

• Inherited Traits

Multiple Choice

A characteristic or feature of one organism that is inherited is always passed from parent to ______.

Examples include: Freckles, hair color, dimples, etc.

• offspring

• child

• parent

• grandparents

Multiple Choice

Which of these is a trait you can inherit?

• Like basketball

• Being a Quarterback

• Writing

• Blue eyes

Multiple Select

Select ALL that are inherited traits.

• Eye Color

• Hair Color

• Skin Color

• Like sour food

Animal Adaptations and Traits

By krysta perez

Adaptation

 A change over time that improves a species’ chance of survival in a specific environment

Animal Adaptations and Traits

Multiple Choice

What is a change over time that improves a species' chance of survival in a specific environment?

• adaptation

• advantageous trait

• camouflage

• mimicry

Camouflage

A trait that allows an organism to blend in with its environment

Animal Adaptations and Traits

Mimicry

When one organism looks like another organism

Animal Adaptations and Traits

Multiple Choice

What is when one organism looks like another organism

• camouflage

• mutualism

• mimicry

• parasitism

Multiple Choice

What is a trait that allows an organism to blend in with its environment?

• camouflage

• mutualism

• mimicry

• parasitism

Multiple Select

Click all the boxes that are adaptations.

• Bear hibernating

• Gills in fish

• Water in a pond

• The wings of a bird

• The temperature of the earth

Physical adaptations

• A change to a body structure that allows the animal to consume food, defend itself and reproduce.

• camouflage

• mimicry

• chemical defenses

• body parts (ex: webbed feet)

Behavioral Adaptations

• allow an animal to respond to life's needs

• actions

• instinctive: happen naturally

• learned: these behaviors are taught

• examples: hibernating, migrating, finding shelter, etc.

Multiple Select

Pretend it is winter. You wear pants, coats, hats, and gloves to stay warm. What type of adaptation are you making?

• behavioral

• physical

Multiple Select

Now you are having a snowball fight. You run away because you don't want your little brother to hit you in the face. What kind of adaptation are you making?

• behavioral

• physical

Multiple Choice

Why does a porcupine have sharp quills?

• To protect them from the cold.

• To protect them from other animals.

• to stick to different surfaces.

• To eat if they get hungry.

Why must animals adapt?