Wisconsin’s Wildlife
All text boxes in the color GREEN must be answered with your partner.
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Wildlife?
Wildlife includes plants, animals, and other living things that have not been domesticated.
Domestication is the process of bringing living things under the control of humans.
Give an example of one wildlife animal you see in Wisconsin:
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What is in this lesson:
Identify Wildlife Animals.
Connection to an ecosystem.
Components of habitat and types of habitats.
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Wildlife Animals:
A wildlife animal is an animal that has not been domesticated. Wildlife animals include bears, deer, rabbits, squirrels, and many others.
Wildlife animals are free to roam the land, water, or air.
Wildlife animals live on their own. They must depend upon their own actions for survival. They must find their own food, water, and shelter.
Protection from predators and the elements is critical to the survival of wildlife animals.
Wildlife animals must compete to survive among many different species of animals.
Wild animals in zoos are not domesticated. They still retain much of their natural behavior.
What kind of wild animals do you see in your backyard or outside your home?
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How Many Do You Know?
Wisconsin’s Wildlife Animals: How many can you find and identify? List the ones you know:
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What is an ecosystem?
An ecosystem...
Food Chain...
is the sequence in which living things in a community get their food. A food chain shows how energy is passed from one life form to another.
contains communities made up of populations. A population is all of the organisms that live in a given area. A community is a group of interacting populations living together in the same environment.
Give an example of a food chain: Start with an animal that eats plants:
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Simplified Food Chain
What would be another example of an animal that eats meat and plants?
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Food Chains
List three animals the killer whale eats based on the food chain shown:
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Food Web
food web is a way of showing how food chains in a community are connected. It also shows how all food begin with resources, such as sunlight and water. Animals in the food web are classified into groups based on the types of food they consume.
What are three meat eaters shown in the food web:
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An animal that hunts, kills, and eats other animals is called a predator!
Give one example of a predator:
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A scavenger is an animal that usually eats dead animals and rarely kills its own prey.
What is one example of an animal that is a scavenger?
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Some facts:
Herbivore
Carnivore
Omnivore
animal that eats only other animals for food.
animal that eats only plants for food.
animal that eats both plants and animals for food
Which type of eater are we/humans?
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Habitats Must Provide the Following:
Food
Shelter
Water
Cover
Space
Organisms cannot survive without these basic components.
For the animals to live, grow, move and reproduce.
Shelter to protect them from the elements.
All living things need water.
Protection from predators and hunters.
Territory for hunting and reproduction.
Uncover the words by moving the colored boxes to see what animals need in their habitat
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