| Food
Web Page |
| Food
Chains: |
| Food Chains are
the web of life in a community. It shows what
each animal eats and what that animal is eaten by.
Each community is unique and has different
animals. The Selvas is a fasanating
representation of a food web. |
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| Food
Webs: |
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food web shows each animals diet. There are many
roles for animals to play. The most important is
the producer. A producer is a plant that absorbs
energy from the sun and then produces its own
food. Second, is the herbivore, a plant eating
animal. What feeds off a plant eating animals
except a carnivore? Carnivores are at the top of
the food chain. |
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| The
Delicate Balance of Organisms: |
| If one
animal is taken out of the food web, it all falls
apart. If all the plants died, what would the
herbivores eat? If all the herbivores died, what
would the carnivores eat? All animals must have a
certain food to furfill the deit. Carnivores
couldn't have the proper nutrition by eating
plants. The same goes for herbivores. This is why
himans are such a problem when they destroy environments. You might be able to live in the
city and go to the supermarket to buy plants, but
a rabbit couldn't. When a habitat is destroyed
the plants are killed. Plants also create oxygen.
Without oxygen, nothing can live. The Amazon
Rainforest is being desroyed. This is a horrible
problem because the rainforest produces 20% of
the worlds oxygen. |
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