5th Grade Science
Organisms that make their own food.
Producers.
Rain, snow, sleet, or hail
Precipitation.
An ecosystem with conifers trees?
Taiga
What is fossil fuels?
Coal, Oil, and Natural Gas
This is what an herbivore eats.
Producers or plants.
How much energy gets transferred to the next trophic level in an energy pyramid?
10%
True or False
rocks, water, and dirt are biotic things
False
An ecosystem with four season and fertile soil?
Temperate Deciduous Forest
What is land type ecosystem called?
Terrestrial Ecosystems
Repeated rise and fall in the level of the ocean.
What is tides?
What type of consumer eats the secondary consumers?
Tertiary Consumer
What are abiotic factors in an ecosystem?
nonliving things such as rocks, water, sunlight, and air.
An ecosystem that permafrost, low vegetation, migration, and hibernation.
What is the tundra ecosystem?
Organisms that eat other organisms.
Consumers.
What type of ecosystem is an estuary found in?
Saltwater
Day to day, hour by hour changes in the conditions in atmosphere (air around you).
Weather.
Natural resources that cannot be replaced once they are used and exist in a fixed amount.
What are non-renewable resources?
What ecosystem contains rivers, lakes, and ponds?
Freshwater
What are water type ecosystem called?
Aquatic ecosystems
What are the two types of natural resources?
Nonrenewable and Renewable
What does herbivores eat?
Plants
Major adverse events that result from the Earth's natural process.
What is Natural disaster?
Organisms that break down dead organic material.
Decomposers.
Where do producers get energy?
The Sun
What type of natural resources can be replaced in a short period of time?
Renewable Resources
What does Omnivores eat?
Both Meat and Plants
Biotic things are:
a. Living b. Non- Living c. Natural things
d. Sand
a. Living
What organism in every ecosystem is needed by all others to survive?
Producers (in most cases, plants).
What do decomposer do in an ecosystem?
Break down the remains of dead organisms and return nutrients to the environment
What is deforestation?
The clearing of trees from on area
What is the source of all energy in an ecosystem
a. producers b. consumers
c. decomposers d. sun
d. Sun
Harmful chemicals, smoke, or trash that get into the air, water, or land making it unsafe for living organisms.
What is pollution?
A predator is an organism in any ecosystem that consumes ___________.
Prey.
Which best describes grasses, shrubs, and trees?
a. producers b. consumers
c. decomposers d. scavengers
a. Producers
What does carnivores eat?
Meat
Is the practice of using natural resources responsibility.
What is substainability?
What is one thing that non-living things don't give us?
a. food b. air c. water d. sunlight
a. Food
An ecosystem with prairie dogs.
Grassland (Prairie)
__________ is the average weather over a period of time.
a. abiotic b. climate c. biotic d. adaptation
b. Climate
What does watershed management protect?
Which method practice soil from erosion and help it be more fertile?
No-Till farming
What is chemical energy?
Food
Everything that surrounds and affects an animal, living and non-living.
What is an environment?
What is the reactant in photosynthesis?
Sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide
What is the product of photosynthesis?
Sugar and Oxygen
Is photosynthesis a chemical change or a physical change?
Chemical change
What alternative energy sources uses heat from inside the earth to create energy?
Geothermal
Which of the following is a biotic resource of an ecosystem? (a) Sun (b) Water (c) Tree (d) Rock
c. Tree
Which trophic level has more energy the primary consumers or the secondary consumers level?
Primary consumer
What are the three R's of conservation? Explain what they do
Reduce-means to use less
Reuse-means to use again for something else
Recycle- means to make into something new