A living environmental factor that could impact the number of moose living on Isle Royale
Multiple Answers:
1. Wolves
2. Ticks
3. Plants Available
100
Which of these are non-living environmental factors: air, plants, rabbits, temperature, light, water, moose.
air, temperature, light, water
100
Environment is...
Everything that surrounds an organism (living thing).
100
Producers are able to make _______ using sunlight.
What is their own food.
100
What environmental factors keep maple trees from growing in the desert?
What is soil, water, temperature.
200
Which of these is a living environmental factor that affects rabbits: air, temperature, plants, or light?
What is plants.
200
Describe an example of how a non-living environmental factor affects an environment.
Examples- temperature could make it warmer affecting the number of ticks that a moose gets. Water allows different types of plants to grow in an environment. Other reasonable answers.
200
Drought is ...
A long period of time with little or no rain.
200
Consumers are organisms that _____.
What is eat other organisms.
200
What is a terrarium?
A mini environment enclosed in a container.
300
A living environmental factor that affects the number of wolves on Isle Royale.
Multiple Answers:
1. The number of moose available to hunt
2. The number of wolves (to hunt with or compete with)
3. Other reasonable answers.
300
How could rainfall affect the amount or type of trees that grow in an area?
Without rain, they may not grow. Some trees may not like too much rain.
300
Decomposers are organisms that _____
What is eat already dead or decaying matter.
300
Which of these is not an environmental factor for a whale: temperature, air, wolves, water.
What is wolves.
400
What living environmental factor might impact the number of rabbits in a neighborhood?
Multiple Answers:
1. The amount of plants to eat.
2. The number of predators that eat rabbits.
3. Other reasonable answers.
400
How does light (a non-living environmental factor) affect bats?
It might signal to them when to hunt and rest (nocturnal).
400
Optimum (or preferred) Environment is ...
What an organism likes best to live in.
400
Name one special adaptation of a turkey vulture.
Possible Answers:
1. Featherless head for eating inside of carcasses and limiting disease.
2. Strong stomach acids for digesting dead animals with lots of bacteria.
3. Ability to vomit on cue to scare away threats to their safety.
400
What is the preferred environment of a polar bear? What are some of the environmental factors that affect it?
What is the arctic. Environmental factors- temperature (frozen land), light (dark winters/bright summers). Other reasonable answers as well.