Food Webs
Food Chains
The Food Pyramid
Effecting Populations
Energy Production
100
A system of transferring energy that is more complex than the food chain.
What is a food web.
100
A model of a singular line showing the flow of energy through different organisms in an ecosystem
What is a food chain?
100
Organisms that eat dead things.
What are decomposers?
100
Describe carrying capacity
The maximum population an ecosystem can support.
100
Signs of climate change
What is extreme weather, melting sea ice, rising sea levels or extreme weather?
200
The only source of energy for all life on earth.
What is the sun?
200
Organisms that create food from sunlight.
What are producers?
200
Bacteria and fungi.
What are decomposers?
200
Food, water, shelter and space.
What are limiting factors?
200
Coal, natural gas or diesel.
What is non-renewable energy?
300
The process that plants use to turn sunlight into nourishment.
What is photosynthesis?
300
All plants are this.
What are producers?
300
Animals that are eaten by predators.
What is prey?
300
A species introduced to an ecosystem where it is not normally found.
What is an invasive species?
300
Using the flow of water to turn a turbine.
What is hydroelectric energy?
400
Product of cellular respiration.
What is carbon dioxide, water or energy
400
All animals are this.
What are consumers?
400
Animals that hunt and eat other animals.
What are predators?
400
Yellowstone Wolves for example
What is a trophic cascade
400
Give an example of a sustainable practice you can do.
Composting, recycling, reducing electricity use, etc.
500
Product of photosynthesis.
What is oxygen or sugar?
500
Organisms that eat both producers and primary consumers.
What are omnivores?
500
The power needed to stay alive and do anything, such as work.
What is energy?
500
Species that can tell the health or an ecosystem
What is an indicator species?
500
Amount of precipitation in January
What is 140 mm?
(140-150 is acceptable)