| Amazon Food
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| Food
Chains: |
| A food
chain is a group of organisims in a community in
the order of what they eat and if they're a
producer, herbivore, or carnivore. For example,
it would start out with grass getting it's energy
from the sun and making it's own food, then the
Red Brocket Deer would eat the grass, and then
the Jaguar would eat the Red Brocket Deer. An
arrow in a food chain is energy passing from one
organisim to another. A food chain does not show
everything one orginism eats or is eaten because
it's only an example of energy passing from
orginis to another in a small community. |
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| Food
Webs: |
| A food web
is examples of organisms in a community, what
they eat and what they are eaten by. The
producers job in a food web is to pass energy to
herbivores, to put oxygen in the air, and to get
rid of the carbon dioxide that humans exhale. The
herbivores job in a food web is to pass energy to
the carnivores and to keep the population of
producers in balance. The carnivores job in the
food web is to keep the herbivores population in
balance. |
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| The
Delicate Balance of Organisms: |
| The
delicate balance of organisims is all the animals
in the world staying at a steady level of their
population. For example, if all the producers
died out, then the herbivores wouldn't have
anything to eat. The carnivores would eat all the
herbivores. Once all the herbivores were gone,
the carnivores wouldn't have anything to eat but
themselves. After all the plants and animals died
out, the humans wouldn't have anything to eat so
the humans would die of starvation. In short, we
must not destroy the rainforest or else
everything else on Earth slowy die out. |
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