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Researching and Classifying
 
Answer the following questions using
complete sentences.

 

What are food chains? Provide examples.

What is the primary source of energy entering any food chain?

What are producers and consumers?

How are they related in food chains and food webs?

What is a decomposer?

What is the role of a decomposer?

Explain some benefits and challenges of  decomposers in the environment?

Describe/explain how living organisms depend on one another and their environment for their survival.

Discuss what happens to a population when the food chain has been disrupted or changed.

How would that effect the rest of the food web?

Provide a possible solution.

How are people related to the Food Web?

Extended Activity:

  • Use what you have already learned to investigate the sea kelp forest.
  • Discuss the importance of sea kelp in that web.
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  • Identify  the role of sea otters in the kelp forest.
  • Assess what would happen if the sea otter population was reduced.
  • Create a collage of the food web.
  • Connect the links between each organism and label each organism.
  • Make a PowerPoint Jeopardy game using information gathered.
  • Use the following link or other sources to gather information.