Introduction to Ecology
The study of the environment plants and animals live in, as well as the relationships between living and non-living things.
Ecology
Boreal forests are located in this hemisphere.
Northern Hemisphere
A tree that had needles on their branches instead of leaves. The needles usually do not fall off during winter.
Conifer
Links between plants and animals as they eat.
Food Chain
Many food chains connected together.
Food Web.
The place a person, plant, or animal lives.
We studied this boreal forest.
Yellowstone National Park
A tree that has leaves that change colors in the fall and fall off the tree before winter.
Deciduous
True or False. A producer makes their own food through photosynthesis and a consumer isn't able make their own food so they get food from a plant or animal.
True.
This is made if a food chain is out of balance.
A broken food web.
The natural environment a plant or animal lives in.
Habitat
The usual, or typical, amount of rain, snow, cloud cover, and sunlight and environment (or biome) will experience during a year.
Climate
The most common tree in the Yellowstone National Park.
Lodgepole Pine
A consumer that eats only plants. A consumer that eats only meat. A consumer that eats both plants and animals.
Herbivore. Carnivore. Omnivore.
In the 1800's, this animal was hunted too much in the Yellowstone National Park and it made a broken food web.
Wolves
All of the living and non-living things that are together in a place.
Ecosystem
A layer of ground that stays hard and frozen all year long.
Permafrost
The process plants use to convert sunlight and carbon dioxide gas from the air into sugar that the plant uses and oxygen we can breathe.
Photosynthesis
What is the predator(s) in this food chain?
Mouse --> Snake --> Hawk
Snake and Hawk
Because there were no wolves, this group of animals grew and grew causing many problems.
Elk
A very large habitat that contains many of the same types of plants and animals.
Biome
True or False. The climate in the boreal forest extreme with cold, harsh winters and hot, humid summers.
True
This tragedy is actually God's mercy to grow a fresh new forest.
Forest Fire
These consumers are also known as tertiary consumers. Give an example of one.
Apex Predator.
Wolf, lion, tiger, polar bear, shark, crocodile, eagle.
This decision was made to fix (restore) the food web in the Yellowstone National Park.
Bring wolves back to the park.