Biotic/Abiotic
Ecosystem Vocabulary
Human Affects
Food Chains/Webs
Ecosystem Essentials
100
Non-living things in an ecosystem.
What is abiotic factors?
100
Populations of organisms living together.
What is a community?
100
Many trees have been cut down and now there are many more deer in the roadways.
What is a lack of space created by people?
100
Food chain: sun - acorn - _____________ - hawk.
What is a squirrel?
100
Make their own food.
What does a living thing have to do to be considered a producer?
200
Water, air and light.
What are abiotic factors in an ecosystem?
200
All of one type of animal in an ecosystem.
What is a population of one type of animal?
200
Removal of trees, bushes and grass affects the lake water.
What are human affects on an ecosystem?
200
Microorganisms, termites, worms, and fungi.
What are examples of decomposers?
200
Aquatic - biotic factors - elodea, duckweed, algae, fish, snails abiotic factors - water, rocks, air Terrestrial - biotic factors - plants, crickets, pill bugs abiotic factors - dirt, air, rocks
What is comparing the biotic and abiotic factors of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems?
300
Living factors in an ecosystem.
What is a biotic factor?
300
This is the only part of the ecosystem that makes its own food.
What is a producer?
300
A family had a dog in the yard and that has an affect on the land and water.
What is pollution created by human actions?
300
Something that you can see and describe.
What is an observation?
300
An organism that hunts other organisms.
What is a predator?
400
Mosquito fish, snails, elodea, algae and duckweed.
What are biotic features in our aquarium?
400
This organism feeds only on animals.
What is a carnivore?
400
A new factory is built in a community.
What is a human contribution to polluting an area?
400
Food chain: sunlight - _________ - mouse - snake - owl.
What is a producer such as grass?
400
An organism hunted by other organisms.
What is prey?
500
Mustard, alfalfa, rye, crickets, pill bugs.
What are the biotic features in a terrarium?
500
This organism feeds only on plants.
What is an herbivore?
500
Pick up litter.
What is something you can do to help our ecosystems?
500
Food chain: sunlight - ____________ - ____________ - red fox or snake or owl. Rabbit - blackberries
What is are the missing parts of the ecosystem? - blackberries and then rabbit
500
Food chains that interact such as grass - rabbit - snake - owl crosses with blackberries - rabbit - red fox.
What are food webs?
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