Vocabulary Reviewed: Classification Kingdom Phylum Invertebrate Vertebrate Class Adaptations Food web Food
chain Predator Prey Carnivore Herbivore Producers Consumers Internal Anatomy terms - gonads, brain, heart, ink sac, gills, pen, eye lens External Anatomy terms - mantle, eye, siphon, arms, tentacles, sucker cups, chromatophores, fin, mouth, beak Includes step by step directions as well as photos for the squid dissection and squid races.
Not exact matches
On Jan. 26 from 5 - 6 p.m. at Crowder County Park in Apex, learn about
predator -
prey relationships, the food
chain, skulls and teeth of mammals, and play some games to test your senses.
The effect could also apply higher up the food
chain —
predators often have to deal with toxins produced by their
prey, such as scorpion venom.
As apex
predators they may be amplifying negative effects lower in the food
chain; if tiny
prey organisms are getting sickened and fish eat them, and the dolphins consume the fish, the bioaccumulation of toxins might be serious.
Unlike previous ones, the new model showed that
predator and
prey populations fluctuate less in complex food webs — those with long food
chains, omnivorous
predators, and competing species of plant - eaters.
They feed on the bottom of the food
chain — on single - celled plankton, which larger fish can not eat — and then they become
prey for all sorts of upper - level
predators like tuna, sea bass and halibut as well as seabirds and marine mammals.
There are 43 slides covering types of habitats, environmental factors affecting habitats, adaptations, producers and consumers,
prey and
predators, food
chains, food webs and pyramids of numbers.
Year 4 Science Assessments Objectives covered: Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways Explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things Describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans Identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions Construct and interpret a variety of food
chains, identifying producers,
predators and
prey Compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases Observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled, and measure or research the temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius (°C) Identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature Identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating Recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear Find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it Find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it Recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases Identify common appliances that run on electricity Construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers Identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery Recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit Recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors
Food
chain, food
chains, food web, food webs, garden food
chains, ocean food
chains, energy, producer, consumer, secondary, primary,
predator,
prey, carnivore, growth, repair, movement, reproduction, feeding relationships, ecology.
Words included: food
chain, producer, consumer, scavenger, decomposer, vertebrate, invertebrate,
predator,
prey carnivore, herbivore, omnivore, heterotroph, autotroph, population, ecosystem, biosphere, biome, community, species, habitat, biotic, abiotic, organism
The group will discuss adaptations and behaviors of
predators and
prey, as well as what happens when links are broken in a food
chain.
Evolve from
prey to
predator in the immensity of the seas, and progress to the top of the food
chain!
Can the
Predator stalk larger
prey, or is it too low on the food
chain?