May 10, 2016

 Bring your notebook, agenda and pencil to your assigned seat  Complete Tuesday’s warm up now!! YOU ARE SILENT, WORKING WHEN THE BELL RINGS!!!

 Begin new standard 6.L.2.1 Food Chains and Food Webs  Read unpacked standard  Notes on producers, consumers, decomposers in food webs and food chains

 Label Next Available Page:  6.L.2.1 Producers, Consumers,and Decomposers in Food Webs and Chains  Number page to match Table of Contents entry

 To understand the flow of energy on Earth  To understand the different levels of energy as it is transferred through food chains (webs)  To appreciate the importance decomposers and the recycling of nutrients  To understand the cycling of matter on Earth (oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, water)

 You will receive a handout…this will be completed today and turned in at the end of class

 Energy flows through ecosystems on Earth in only one direction  Flow of energy: from the sun to producers to consumers to decomposers

 ECOSYSTEMS: all the living things (plants, animals, and organisms) interacting with one another in a given location along with their non-living environments Aquatic Ecosystems Marine Ecosystems

 How do all the living things (plants, animals, and decomposers) obtain their energy in their ecosystem?  They either produce their own energy, consume other organisms, or decompose dead and organic matter Aquatic Ecosystems Marine Ecosystems

 We will begin with a short video on Study Jams to introduce this unit in science  Answer the questions on your worksheet

 ms/science/ecosystems/food-chains.htm ms/science/ecosystems/food-chains.htm

 1. What is a food chain?  2. How is energy transferred within a system and between organisms?  3. Why are decomposers important to this transfer of energy?

 Using the information in the following slides, check to see how successful you were in recording information from the video questions  We will review everything now during whole group discussion

 PRODUCERS:  Make their own food through photosynthesis  This food is energy for the plant and higher level consumers that eat plants  Includes: all green plants and algae

 CONSUMERS: eat other organisms

 Primary Consumers =Eat Producers (known as herbivores)  Secondary Consumers =Eat Primary Consumers (carnivores that eat the herbivores)  Tertiary Consumers = Eat Secondary Consumer (carnivores that eat other carnivores)

 CONSUMERS: 3 TYPES

 1. HERBIVORES: animals that mainly eat PLANTS like leaves, grass, flowers, seeds, roots, fruits and more  Herbivore Examples (write down 3)  Deer Horses  Rabbits Cows  Bees Sheep  Grasshoppers

 2. CARNIVORES: animals that eat mainly meat including insects and animals  Carnivores examples (write 3)  Felines (lions, tigers)  Eagles, hawks, owls  Sharks  Frogs  Spiders

 3. OMNIVORES: organisms that eat plants and animals  Omnivore Examples:  Humans (not vegetarians)  Most Bears  Raccoons  Most primates (apes and monkeys)  Seagulls

 DECOMPOSERS:  eat dead plants and animals and break them down (decompose)  Decomposers return nutrients back to the environment.  Examples include:  Fungi  Bacteria  earthworms

 Food chains: show how plants and animals get connected together by the things they eat.  Within the chain, all organisms depend on one another to survive

 Use the space on your worksheet draw a simple food chain  You must clearly show and label:  A producer  A primary, secondary and tertiary consumer  A decomposer

energy Energy returned to the environment energy

 Food Webs:  Much more complex than a simple food chain  Shows complex feeding relationships within the communities found in ecosystems

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