ective Type Questions
Answer the following.
(1) Why do animals need to eat food?
How are herbivores, carnivores and omnivores
(c) How does a snake eat food?
How does a butterfly suck nectar?
le What is a food chain? Give an example to
Answers
Explanation:
1. because food provides energy for various processes
Answer:
1)Animals need food to provide energy to existing cells and to provide the raw materials and energy for the construction of new cells. Cells in animal bodies combine oxygen with food to release energy.
2)Animals that eat plants exclusively are herbivores, and animals that eat only meat are carnivores. When animals eat both plants and meat, they are called omnivores. The balance of an ecosystem depends on the presence of every type of animal.
3)Snakes do not have the right kind of teeth to chew their food so they must eat their catch whole. Their jaw is structured in such a way that it allows the mouth to open wider than their own body in order to swallow their prey whole. ... The warmer their bodies, the faster they digest their food
4).It is called a proboscis and is a long flexible tube like straw that is the butterfly's tongue. The butterfly uses the proboscis to drink nectar and when it is not in use it curls back into a spiral.
5)1.
a series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food.
2.
the series of processes by which food is grown or produced, sold, and eventually consumed.
"they have taken all reasonable steps to ensure that no contaminated products enter the food chain"