A group of populations that live together in an ecosystem
What is a community?
100
The transfer of food energy between organisms in an ecosystem
What is a food chain?
100
The source of energy that moves through an ecosystem. This is also where plants get their energy.
What is sun?
100
This happens to the population of 1st level consumers if the producers in an ecosystem were damaged by a wildfire.
What is decreases?
100
An animal that eats only producers
What is herbivore?
200
The process in which plants make food by using water from the soil, carbon dioxide from the air and energy from the sun
What is photosynthesis?
200
A diagram that shows how much food energy is passed from each level in a food chain to the next.
What is an energy pyramid?
200
A bird who eats an insect would be an example of what level of consumer?
What is 2nd level consumer?
200
What organism has the greatest impact (both positive and negative) on an ecosystem? *Hint: Think back to some of our science multiple choice reading passages.
What are humans?
200
Cows, rabbits and squirrels could described by which TWO terms
What is first level consumers and herbivores?
300
A living thing, such as a plant, that makes its own food
What is a producer?
300
A diagram that shows the relationships between different food chains in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
300
Fill in the missing link in chain of energy transfer.
Producers-1st level consumers- ? - 3rd level consumers
What is 2nd level consumers?
300
An ecosystem characterized by hot arid climates and high temperatures.
What is a desert?
300
A consumer that obtains food energy by breaking down the remains of dead plants and animals.
What is decomposer?
400
A community of organisms and the environment in which they live; All the living and non-living things in an environment.
What is ecosystem?
400
This organism would be a decomposer in this food chain. Berries, Deer, Wolf, Buzzard.
What is a buzzard?
400
At each level approximately ______ percent of energy is used and only ______ percent is passed on to the next level.
What is 90 percent and 10 percent?
400
True or false. Changes in one population in an ecosystem have no impact on the other populations in the ecosystem.
What is false?
400
A green pigment in plants that allows a plant cell to use light to make food.
What is chlorophyll?
500
A group of organisms of one kind that live in one location
What is population?
500
True or false. Animals can appear in multiple food chains and food webs.
What is true?
500
True or False. An ecosystem can support more 3rd level consumers than it can producers.
What is false?
500
Identify the ecosystem. Wet and dry seasons. Forest canopy. Tropical climate. High amounts of rainfall.