Understanding Food Chains and Ecosystems
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1 - Inside the food chains (Read the text and answer the questions)
All animals, regardless of their lifestyle, serve as a source of food for others.
living beings. They are connected by a food chain or trophic chain system, composed of organisms
producers (plants), consumers (animals), and decomposers (bacteria and fungi).
Plants are the base of the food chain, as they produce their own food through
photosynthesis. Next come the herbivorous animals and then the carnivores, which feed on the
herbivores.
At the end of the chain are the decomposers, which consume decomposing organic matter and return
to the soil nutrients that will be used by the plants.
In a community, the set of interconnected food chains forms a food web, which
completes with the decomposers breaking down and oxidizing organic matter to obtain energy and returning to
environment minerals that will be reused by plants.
The mangrove is an ecosystem located in coastal areas, estuaries, and river deltas and is one of
most important ecosystems for ecological balance. The marshy, flooded, or sandy soil, rich in organic matter
organic, promotes the development of a special vegetation: the mangroves. Mangroves are plants with
thick bundle-shaped roots that are exposed when the tide is low. It is the nursery of numerous forms
of life and the source of food for a large part of marine fauna.
a) What does it mean to say that plants are the base of the food chain?
b) What are decomposers?
c) Name three characteristics of the MANGROVE, an ecosystem that is very important for life.
2-Fill in with arrows, thus forming a food chain and answer:
a) In the food chain above, which living being is represented by the producer?
In this chain, is the frog a primary, secondary, or tertiary consumer?
c) Does the hawk need to eat a lot or a little to obtain energy? Why?
d) How many living beings are represented in this food chain?
3-Complete the sentences using the words from the box below:
HERBIVORE HETEROTROPH FUNGI FOOD PHOTOSYNTHESIS
a) The autotrophic being is one that produces its own _____________________
b) The being that does not produce its own food is called _______________
c) The being that only feeds on plants is called a____________________
d) An example of decomposers can be the _____________________;
The terrestrial space and its representations
Man has created several ways to represent the planet he lives on. Due to its spherical shape, the
The globe is the representation that allows us to form a more accurate idea of what it is like.
Planet Earth.
In order for us to have an overview of the entire surface of the Earth at once, man
he created the planisphere, which is the "flat" representation of the Earth.
2. Observe the comic strip and answer:
a) What is the name of the object that Mafalda is seeing?
3. With the help of a world map, solve the following exercises.
a) Paint on the world map:
the blue oceans; the yellow and green Brazil the continents delimit.
b) With the red colored pencil, reinforce the line of the Equator and, with the green colored pencil, the meridian of
Greenwich.
c) The planet Earth is made up of continents and oceans. Answer:
What are the continents of our planet?
On which continent is our country located?
d) "The Earth is blue!" This was the excited exclamation of the Russian astronaut Yuri Gagarin, the first
man observing Earth from space, in 1961.
Based on the world map you painted and the statement from the Russian astronaut, indicate what there is.
in greater quantity on the Earth's surface: ( water ( earth