Biomes
What is an example of one biome?
Answers vary- desert, ocean, tundra, rainforest, grasslands...
What do you call an animal that eats second?
Secondary consumer
These make their own food through photosynthesis
Producers
TRUE or FALSE
It is easy for animals and plants to find all the food, water, and shelter they need to survive.
FALSE
What is an omnivore?
An animal that eats plants AND animals
What does the prefix BIO mean?
Living or alive
Food webs show the flow of ________ through an ecosystem.
ENERGY
What do you call the relationship between a hawk and a snake?
predator/prey
Food, water, shelter, and mates are all examples of these.
Resources
What do you call an animal at the top of a food web?
An apex predator
What is one ABIOTIC factor in an ecosystem?
Anything NOT alive- rocks, soil, weather, climate, pH, amount of rain...
What part of a food web helps return and recycle energy back into the ground?
A decomposer
What do you think will happen to a population of deer if a forest fire burns all the grasses and trees in their forest?
It will decrease
What is one challenge a species faces trying to survive?
Finding resources, avoiding predators, competing with other species
Where did Ms. Minichiello grow up?
Connecticut
Give me an example of a population.
A group of ONE species of animal/plant
What is the difference between a food CHAIN and a food WEB?
A food chain shows one path energy can take, food webs show many paths
What do you think will happen to an ecosystem if all of the top predators (like wolves) were removed?
The prey populations would increase, the producer population would decrease, the ecosystem would eventually collapse
Why is it easy for an invasive species to overpopulate an area?
Because it has no predators
During photosynthesis, plants take in _____ and put out _______.
Take in CO2
Put out oxygen
What do you call all the living and non-living things in one area?
An ecosystem
What is the role of a producer in a food web?
To turn the suns energy into usable energy for animals
Why would people want to remove a top predator? For example, in around Yellowstone National Park and in Colorado, some humans do not like having wolves around so they hunt them to extinction in that area.
Because the wolves eat their cows/farm animals
Briefly explain how/why cane toads were brought to Australia.
To get rid of a destructive beetle already there. They ended up not liking THAT beetle and began eating all of the local bugs instead.
What is carrying capacity?
The maximum number of individuals an ecosystem can support