Book Two: Environments Investigation Five: Animal Population

Focus questions What are the environmental factors that affect animal populations? What are the roles of organisms in a food chain? How does food affect a population in its home range?

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1. Food Chain - A description of the feeding relationship between organisms in an environment

Food Chain

2. Food Web - All the connected and interacting food chains in an ecosystem by using arrows

Food web

An animal that only eats other animals 3. Carnivore - An animal that only eats other animals

An animal that only eats plants 4. Herbivore - An animal that only eats plants

An animal that eats plants and animals 5. Omnivore - An animal that eats plants and animals

Carnivore Herbivore Omnivore

An animal that hunts and catches other animals for food 6. predator - An animal that hunts and catches other animals for food

An animal eaten by another animal for food 7. prey - An animal eaten by another animal for food

An animal that eats dead animals 8. scavenger - An animal that eats dead animals

9. parasite - An organism that lives on and get nutrients from another living organism

An organism that makes its own food (plants) 10. Producer - An organism that makes its own food (plants)

An organism that can’t make its own food (animals) 11. Consumer - An organism that can’t make its own food (animals)

12. decomposer - An organism that breaks down plant and animal material into simple chemicals

decomposer

All organisms of one kind living together 13. Population - All organisms of one kind living together

14. Pollution - Substance added to an environment that makes the area unsuitable to live in

When animals move from place to place 15. migrate - When animals move from place to place

FIND FOOD CHANGE IN WEATHER HIBERNATION BREEDING Why animals migrate? FIND FOOD CHANGE IN WEATHER HIBERNATION BREEDING

Experiments! Plant Growth Insect Lifecycle Aquarium Lifecycle Mr. Kapusta’s Room Mr. Croft’s Mrs. Smith’s Plant Growth Insect Lifecycle Aquarium Lifecycle Observation #5

Simulation! TOMORROW Gym or Outside Population Simulation

Focus questions What are the environmental factors that affect animal populations? What are the roles of organisms in a food chain? How does food affect a population in its home range?