Pond Ecosystem
Food chains and food webs
Changes in the ecosystem
Adaptations
100
Three biotic factors found in a pond ecosystem.
What are trees, grass, deer, fly, grasshopper, turtle, frog, butterfly, frog spawn, cattails, lilypad?
100
One food chain found in the food web.
What is pine tree, snowshoe hare, red fox?

pine tree, squirrel, redfox

maple tree, snowshoe hare, gray wolf

maple tree, snowshoe hare, raccoon

100
Forest fire
What is a man-made or natural change?
100
A giraffe's long neck helps it to reach its food supply.
What is a physical adaptation?
200
Three abiotic factors found in a pond ecosystem.
What are sun, water, air?
200
Describe how the disappearance of the snowshoe hare would affect this food web.
What is if the snowshoe hare disappeared, the red fox, raccoon, and gray wolf would lose an important food source.
200
Earthquake
What is a natural change?
200
A opossum plays dead to trick predators.
What is a behavioral adaptation?
300
The frog's habitat.
What is a log or pond?
300
List the producers.
What are the pine tree and maple tree?


300
Logging
What is a man-made change?
300
Monarch butterflies migrate to warmer climates to survive the harsh winters.
What is a behavioral adaptation?
400
Name 3 animal populations that make up the pond community.
What are deer, fly, grasshopper, turtle, frog, and butterfly?
400
List the primary consumers.
What are the squirrel and snowshoe hare?
400
The walking stick looks like a twig instead of prey.
What is camouflage ( a physical adaptation)?
500
The larger biome where this pond ecosystem would most likely be found: desert, tundra, deciduous forest, taiga. 
Where is the deciduous forest?
500
The secondary consumers.
What are the red fox, gray wolf, and raccoon?
500
Camels have thick, long eyelashes that help keep out the desert sand.
What is a physical adaptation?
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