Biotic or Abiotic?
All Abiotic things are dead things. True or False?
False. All dead things are abiotic but not all abiotic things are dead. They are considered none living. For example, water is abiotic but was never alive.
is a producer a plant or an animal?
A producer is a plant. It produces things for animals to eat.
Insert a plant or animal to complete the chain: Grass ----> _________ ----> Wolves -----> Worms ---->
Deer, rabbits, etc.
Provide an example of an animal adapting to its environment.
Answer Varies
What do humans depend on plants for?
Oxygen
Plants are considered to be abiotic. True or False?
False. Plants are living, and therefor considered biotic.
A consumer is an animal that eats other living things. True or False?
True.
What is biodiversity?
The amount of different organisms in an ecosystem.
How have polar bears adapted to living in arctic conditions?
They have black skin, blubber, white fur as camouflage, big feet to walk across the ice.
Chlorophyll is required for a plant to go through ______________?
Photosynthesis
What is the system in which abiotic and biotic factors interact with one another?
An ecosystem!
What would happen if all of the consumers in an area were suddenly eliminated?
It would cause severe damage to the ecosystem. The producers would overgrow.
Energy is the start of the chain and originates from this source.
The Sun.
What is a niche?
The role an organism plays in its environment.
How is tobacco used by Indigenous cultures?
It is smoked as an offering.
Fungi and Bacteria are biotic or abiotic?
They are living things. They are biotic.
Omnivores eat meat and meat only. True or False?
False, they eat plants and meat.
What do the arrows in a food chain represent?
The transfer of energy within the ecosystem.
A giraffe’s long neck is an adaptation that helps it do this.
Eat tall leaves.
This part of the plant captures sunlight to make food.
The leaves!
Name 5 different abiotic factors:
Soil, water, sunlight, air, rocks, etc.
Provide three examples of decomposers.
Worms, bacteria, fungi
If a top predator disappears from a food web, this could happen to the population of its prey.
The amount of prey would increase.
Animals that fight eachother for resources or territory are said to be in _____________________ with one another.
Competition
The purpose of flowers on plants.
To reproduce!