What is desert, grassland, tundra, forest, tropical rain forest?
100
What is the niche of a scavenger?
What is to feed on dead plants and animals?
100
What is the role of zooplankton in a food web?
What is a consumer?
100
Why is a desert a system?
What is it has parts that work together for a purpose?
200
An organism that only eats plants.
What is an herbivore?
200
How might limited space affect organisms in an ecosystem?
What is the amount of water or food available would decrease, and the organisms would not be able to survive?
200
What is a consumer?
What is an organism that eats other living things to get energy?
200
What do animals need that travels through a food chain?
What is nutrients and minerals?
200
A population of birds in a community would decrease because of the amount of _________.
What is food decreases?
300
An organism that eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
300
What are the parts of an ecosystem?
What is living and nonliving things?
300
What is a producer?
What is an organism that makes its own food for energy?
300
In a diagram of a food chain, arrows show the flow of energy. Arrows point from the ________ to ________.
What is the eaten to the eater?
300
We think of an organisms habitat as its address or where it lives. Provide an example of an organism and its habitat.
What is varied student responses?
400
The specific role or job an organism has in its habitat.
What is a niche?
400
Give examples of living things and nonliving things in a desert ecosystem.
What is bacteria, cactus, coyote, roadrunner, water, air, sunlight, rocks?
400
If all the producers were removed from a desert ecosystem, which consumers would be affected first?
What is the herbivores?
400
Explain what a food web is, and how it differs from a food chain.
What is a food web consists of many food chains where the flow of energy branches in many directions. A food chain only goes in one direction, and shows how organisms transfer energy.
400
Organisms have adaptations that help them in their niche. Provide an example of an organism and one of its adaptations.
What is varied student responses?
500
Organisms that break down dead plants and animals.
What is a decomposer?
500
How can a desert and a cactus each be an ecosystem?
What is each provides an environment that meets the needs of the organisms living in it?
500
What can happen in an ecosystem if energy transfer is interrupted?
What is the ecosystems can die?
500
What is the difference between the niche and the habitat of a desert roadrunner?
What is the habitat of a desert roadrunner is the desert. Its niche is the job it has, which is chasing food like lizards, and trying to escape the food of other animals like coyotes.
500
How do decaying organisms in a swamp help create the next generation of organisms?
What is the decaying organisms put minerals back into the soil?