Chapter 2 Life in the Fathoms (Amplify)

What are krill?

• • Small crustaceans

• • Big sharks

• • Seaweed

• • Tiny fish

What do krill eat?

• • Algae

• • Tuna

• • Sharks

• • Remoras

Which animal is a primary consumer in the text?

• • Krill

• • Bluefin tuna

• • Great white shark

• • Herring

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

What is a tertiary consumer?

• • Remora

• • Krill

• • Bluefin tuna

• • Algae

What do apex predators eat?

• • Only algae

• • Many other animals

• 
  • Only krill

• • Only detritus

What does a detritivore eat?

• • Rocks

• • Live fish

• • Live plants

• • Waste and dead organisms

What is a symbiotic relationship?

• • Animals that eat rocks

• • Two animals living together for help

• • Animals that fight each other

• • Animals that live alone

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

Why do remoras attach to sharks?

• • To hide from krill

• • To eat waste and parasites

• • To sleep on them

• • To attack the shark

What does a food web show?

• • Only what sharks eat

• • How energy moves between organisms

• • Only what plants eat

• • Only what krill eat

Which is true about consumers on the trophic pyramid?

• 
  • They live in rocks

• • They eat other organisms

• • They make their own food

• • They eat only sunlight