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Food Chains and Food Webs
A food chain is a indicator of the producers and consumers of different habitats. Ask questions about the food chains of different ecosystems here.
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Which level of organisms in a food web contain the least biomass?
Single cell: The diversity of single-celled organisms is astounding. These differences are apparent in both the structure and function of the organisms. ...
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The Producers; Photo-synthesizers, such as plants or trees are producers of food for herbivores, and herbivores are food for carnivores.
What is always at the beginning of the food chain?
A producer is at the beginning of every food chain. Usually it is a green plant, which can use the energy in sunlight to produce food. That food supports all the other organisms.
There is no food chain until food is produced.
Is a food web an overlapping network food chains True or false?
True. We studied them in geography last year.
What is the food chain for a snake?
Chameleons have very long sticky tongues that they can shoot out of their mouths for a long way. They remain very still and when they see an insect near them they move very slowly towards it rocking back and forth to look like a leaf in the wind. When they get into range, their tongue shoots out and sticks onto the insect which is then drawn into the chameleons mouth and swallowed. The process is fascinating to watch!
Top of The Food Chain the narrator takes a tone?
He makes choices without considering their consequences.
How do you make a food web with a mouse corn bluebird king snake hawk cat and cricket?
that questionis very simple and my answer was research on the internet
Where does sloth fit in to the food chain?
The sloth eats mostly leaves and fruit, making it a heterotroph as it does not produce its own energy. Sloths also occasionally eat the bugs and beetles residing in the algae that grows in their fur. Because the leaves they eat are hard to digest and provide little energy, sloths have very large and slow-acting stomachs (it can take days to digest a meal, and food may remain in the stomach for a week or more), and tend to not spend a lot of energy. As a matter of fact, sloths only comes down from its usual position upside-down in a tree about once a week, or longer, to rid themselves of excrement. The sloth's main source of water is the water within and running down leaves.
What position does the Longhorn Beetle species have in the food web?
maple tree - Asian longhorned beetle - bird
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What is the purpose of food webs?
To see the chain of life, and what its causes and effects are. There are many other answers to this that you could see on google.com
How does carbon dioxide enter a food web?
Sorry, I don't know :p
Any way
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they grow...
THE FOOD CHAIN GOES DOWN FAST though
Is the koala in the middle of the food chain?
Koalas are purely herbivores and only eat certain eucalyptus leaves. They rarely drink water, as all liquid they require comes from the eucalyptus leaves.
Due to the lack of natural predators on the Australian mainland, the koala is near the top of the food chain. Dingoes, an introduced species, eat koalas, and koalas are also subject to predation by dogs that kill for sport, not food.
Koalas are at the top of their food chain. They only eat eucalyptus leaves. Owls have been known to eat baby koalas. Koalas eat up to one pound of eucalyptus leaves per day.
Where is the black footed ferret on the food chain?
Black footed ferrets exact origin is unknown, but they first appeared in North America approximately 100,000 years ago, and came from across the Bering Strait.
The black footed ferret is native to North America in the grassland biome and are today found in the Great Plains states such as Montana, New Mexico, and Arizona where they live on prairie dog towns.The black footed ferret lives in the North American prairie and grassland. There are three distinct areas of prairie - Tallgrass prairie, Mixed-grass prairie and Shortgrass prairie. In the United States, the greatest stretch of grassland is the prairie, extending from the Appalachians in the East to the Rocky Mountains in the West. Being in the center of the North American land mass, far from the moderating influence of major bodies of water, there is a great range of annual temperature.The dominant vegetation in these biotic communities is blue grama, mixed with galleta grass, Indian rice grass, and other grasses.
Black footed ferret habitat and food sourceBlack-footed ferrets are carnivores (meat-eaters) and their survival depends on prairie dogs as their main food source.Prairie dogs comprise 90 percent of the diet ofblack-footed ferrets. A ferret family of 4 will consume an average 763 prairie dogs per year. A prairie dog is as large as or larger than a black-footed ferret. The ferret will attack a prairie dog below ground at night when the prairie dog is sleeping. The ferret places a bite on the neck or throat of the prairie dog to suffocate it. The close confines of the burrow make it difficult for their prey to escape. Black-footed ferrets eat all parts of the prairie dog and have sharp teeth that can easily shear through the prairie dog bones. They also eat small rodents such as mice, eggs and small reptiles.
Black footed ferrets do not dig their own burrows, and require the burrows of prairie dogs for shelter and to raise families, sometimes of prairie dogs they have eaten. Prairie dogs are rodents and live in aggregations called towns or colonies in burrows which can be as much as 15 feet deep and 60 feet long and sometimes connect with other burrows. Prairie dogs use prairie and grassland habitat ranging from the mid-west to the western United States. They are considered a key indicator species for the health of prairie and grassland habitat. When the black footed ferret takes a prairie dog burrow to live in, they alter it by backing out the dirt held against its chest and drags the dirt farther from the burrow entrance each time. The result is a trench 8-12 cm wide and up to 3.5 m long. These trenches are formed mostly at night and, if fresh, are a sure sign of the presence of a ferret as no other species of animal living in a dog town leaves this type of structure.
The Black-footed ferret has special adaptations, They are extremely, highly specialized predators with powerful jaws. With a bite to the back of the neck of it's prey - the prairie dog, can be twice it's size. The black footed ferret has a long, slender body and short legs that allows them to use the prairie dog's burrow for shelter. They spend a majority of their time in the burrows avoiding predators. Black-footed ferrets are primarily nocturnal and are active in winter.
Black footed ferret habitat lossBlack-footed ferrets - once ranged over a large area across the Great Plains/Rocky Mountain states and Canadian province and found on black-tailed prairie dog colonies across the Great Plains from southern Canada to northern Mexico, and on white-tailed and Gunnison's prairie dog colonies across the intermountain west. They used to be found in Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Wyoming and portions of Canada and Mexico before becoming extinct in the wild. By 1986 they were completely gone from the wild. In the early 1900's humans eradicated prairie dogs and destroyed prairie dog habitat. Ranchers see the prairie dog as a competitor for the grass that cattle eat, so they have poisoned prairie dogs with harmful chemicals that sometimes killed other animals. Also, many prairie dog towns have been plowed over for crop fields or destroyed for human development. Diseases, like sylvatic plague, have also reduced prairie dog populations. Scientists estimated we have lost as much as 98% of the prairie dog habitat that once existed. As human encroachment and other factors reduced the populations of prairie dogs, this also reduced ferret populations.The black footed ferret have been successfully reintroduced to 15 locations in their former range in the states of Wyoming, South Dakota, Montana, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Kansas and Chihuahua, Mexico.
Black footed ferret are also exhibited in zoos across North America. You can see a black-footed ferret in a zoo since ferrets are very rare and difficult to see in the wild. Many zoos and several federal agency's visitor centers across North America have black-footed ferrets on display.
You can see a live black footed ferret at zoos in:- Akron Zoo, Akron, OH (call to verify first)
- Binder Park Zoo, Battle Creek, MI
- Bramble Park Zoo, Watertown, SD
- Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, Colorado Springs, CO
- Dakota Zoo, Bismarck, ND
- Elmwood Park Zoo, Norristown, PA
- Fort Worth Zoo, Fort Worth, TX (call to verify first)
- Henry Doorly Zoo, Omaha, NE (call to verify first)
- Hogle Zoo, Salt Lake City, UT
- Hutchinson Zoo, Hutchinson, KS
- Lake Superior Zoo, Duluth, MN
- Lee Richardson Zoo, Garden City, KS
- Louisville Zoological Gardens, Louisville, KY
- National Zoological Park, Washington, D.C.
- North Eastern Wisconsin Zoo, Green Bay, WI
- Phoenix Zoo, Phoenix, AZ
- San Antonio Zoological Gardens and Aquarium, San Antonio, TX
- San Diego Wild Animal Park, Escondido, CA
- Texas Zoo, Victoria, TX
- Toronto Zoo, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
- Zoo Montana, Billings, MT
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How might alack of sunlight disrupt the food web?
A lack of sunlight may cause all or the plants to die because plants need the sun's energy to make food. When all the plants are dead, then all of the herbivores, or plant eaters, would die or migrate because they only eat plants and do not eat meat. Then when the plant eaters were gone, the meat eaters would die because there would be no animals to eat because they all migrated or died of starvation.
Can there be a food chain containing 10 organisms?
of course there could be a food chain containing 10 organisims. the world is big, most things are possible, and there are countless species of animals. many which we might not even have discovered yet.
What is the thorny lizard's food chain?
The diet of a thorny lizard are ants
The diet that the thorny devil mainly subsists on consists of ants, often the Iridomyrmex or the Ochetellus. Some reports indicate that the Iridomyrmex flavipes is its the predominant prey, but this species was renamed Ochetellus flavipes in 1992.
Thorny devils often eat thousands of ants in one day. They collect moisture in the dry desert via the condensation of dew on their bodies at night. This dew forms on its skin, and then it is channelled to its mouth in hygroscopic grooves between its spines.During rainfalls, capillary action allows the thorny devil to suck in water from all over its body
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When using bottom to top shelving order what determines best placement of food in a cooler?
Minimum internal cooking temperature of food
What are food chains food webs and energy pyramids?
An example of a food chain: [ Grass -> Zebra -> Lion ]
Food WebA food web is a diagram, of some sort, that links at least two food chains together. Food webs describe how energy is passed throughout a section of an ecosystem (or an entire ecosystem).An example of a food web:
[ Grass ] -> [ Zebra ] -v
[ Leaf ] -> [ Giraffe ] - [ Lion ]
Food PyramidA type of diagram that explains a food chain (or food web).(Not to be confused with the Diet Pyramid, which shows the type of food you should eat, and how much of each type of food)
A food chain ALWAYS starts with the sun why because the sun is the most powerful energy source.
Here is a simple food chain:
SUN-GRASS-BUGS-BIRDS-CATS- etc
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Chemical Energy
Potential Energy......which is stored in chemical bonds
Are worms producers or consumers?
they are fat things and eat everything...including cheese
neither. they're decomposers.
whoever wrote that is wrong sucker... they are consumers and decomposers because they consume dead organisms and im in 7th grade and im smarter than you
What diagrams are used to show how much energy flows in a food chain There are 3?
the diagram use to describ food chain in animal is called a pyramid
Why are photosynthesizers the foundation for all food chains food webs and food pyramids?
Producers ,or photosynthesizers as you call them ,are the foundation for food webs and food chains ,because herbivores eat plants (producers) and carnivores eat herbivores and sometimes other carnivores. Withoutthe plants ,the herbivores would have no food. Without the herbivores ,the carnivores would have no food ,and the chain or web would be damaged. This is my theory ,did it help you?
How food chain and food web are alike?
Food webs consist of different plants and animals, food chains are just animals in an environment with a producer, top consumer, and animals in the middle who are consumers.
