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- animals with backbone
- cold-blooded such as fish, amphibians, reptiles
- warm-blooded such as birds and mamals
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- animals with no backbone
- 97% of earth's animals
- sponges, worms, mollusks, starfish, lobsters, crabs, jellyfish
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shows how all the food chains within an ecosystem are connected
can be affected by:
-weather, fire, flooding
-deforestation
-pesticides
-pollution |
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- the things that eat dead or decaying object
- fungi and bacteria are 2 examples
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they produce their own food
example would be plants |
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sun
grass
rabbit
owl
earthworm |
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| name the food chain in order from the sun to the earthworm |
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| how energy flows in an ecosystem |
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animals that eat the plants
examples include: herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores |
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animals that eat consumers
they hunt and kill other animals for food |
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| an increase in this would most likely result in an increase in the size of a population |
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- found near the equator
- warm temperatures
- wet climate
- animals include jaguars and anacondas
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- moderate temperatures
- 1/4 of Earth's land
- animals include prairie dogs, kangaroos, and lions
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- world's coldest
- animals include the polar bear and arctic hares
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-accounts for 97% of earth's water
-animals include the great white shark, lobsters, and angelfish |
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-moderate temperatures and rainfall
-have 4 seasons
-common animals include foxes, deers, and cardinals |
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