Question | Answer |
CER | Claim Evidence Reasoning |
Claim | Your answer |
Evidence | Proving your answer with observations; such as data from a food web |
Reasoning | Explain the why using science vocabulary |
Food Web | System of interlocking and interdependent food chains |
Producer | Plants or autotrophs; make their own food |
Primary Consumer | Eat the producer |
Secondary Consumer | Eat the primary consumer |
Tertiary Consumer | Eat the secondary consumer |
Energy Pyramid | A model to show the flow of energy in an ecosystem |
Triangle | Shape of energy pyramid |
Biomass | Renewable energy from plant material or animal waste |
Trophic Level | The levels in an ecosystem |
Sunlight | Energy needed for survival and enters through our producers |
Change in Biomass | The largest biomass is available in the producers. As you move up an energy pyramid, energy is used and lost because organisms need it to survive. |
Facts | These come from the evidence |
Blank | The claim is usually fill in the ___. |
Paragraph | The reasoning is a... |
Opinion | The reasoning paragraph should end with your... |
Abiotic | Nonliving natural factors |
Biotic | Living factors |
Ecosystem | This is made of biotic and abiotic factors |
Population | All the organisms that are the same type in a certain area |
Organism | A single living thing |
Nonliving | Rock, soil, air, and water are abiotic so they are... |
Living | Trees, spiders, snakes, and flowers are biotic so they are... |