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 or influences an organism.
100
Producers are able to make _______ using sunlight. This process is called ___________.
Food. Photosynthesis.
100
What environmental factors keep maple trees from growing in the desert?
There is not enough water for them to survive.
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 _____.
Eat other organisms.
200
What is a terrarium?
A mini garden.
300
Name the 5 types of seeds we planted in our terrarium.
Radish, Corn, Barley, Peas, Clover.
300
What do we call a non-living thing?
Abiotic
300
To sprout or grow.
Germinate
300
Decomposers are organisms that _____
Eat already dead or decaying matter.
300
Which of these is not an environmental factor for a whale: temperature, air, wolves, water.
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
Name 3 abiotic things that affect our terrarium.
Water, Soil, Temperature
400
Optimum (or preferred) Environment is ...
What an organism likes best to live in.
400
Name one special adaptation of a giraffe. Why do they have this adaptation?
Long neck so they are able to eat from trees.
400
What is the preferred environment of a polar bear? What are some of the environmental factors that affect it?
The arctic. Environmental factors- temperature (frozen land), light (dark winters/bright summers). Other reasonable answers as well.
500
What do we call the amount of something an organism can take and still survive?
Range of Tolerance.
500
How does the amount of water affect our plants?
If they get too much water they will not be able to grow their roots, if there is not enough water, they will wilt or not grow to begin with.
500
One part of the environment...
Environmental Factor
500
Put the following in the correct order as they would appear in a food chain: grass, mouse, snake, sunlight.
Sunlight, Grass, Mouse, Snake
500
What is a preferred environment?
The environment that an animal chooses over another.