Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Vocabulary 3
Concepts 1
Concepts 2
100
A community of organisms and the environment in which they live.
What is an ecosystem?
100
The transfer of energy between organisms in an ecosystem.
What is a food chain?
100
A gradual change of the kinds of organisms that live in an ecosystem?
What is succession?
100
The source of energy for producers?
What is the sun, because producers need light to make food?
100
Within a kingdom, what is the largest grouping of organisms?
What is a phylum?
200
An organism that breaks down the remains of dead plants and animals.
What is a decomposer?
200
A diagram that shows how much food energy is passed to each level in a food chain.
What is an energy pyramid?
200
The saving of resources.
What is conservation?
200
The kind of organism that comes last in every food chain.
What is a decomposer?
200
Which ordering of these organisms makes a food chain: a. grass-snake-locust-owl b. owl-snake-grass-locust c. snake-locust-grass-owl d. grass-locust-snake-owl
What is d. grass-locust-snake-owl?
300
An animal that eats only producers.
What is an herbivore?
300
Populations that live and interact together.
What is a community?
300
The process of cleaning and restoring damaged ecosystems.
What is reclamation?
300
Suppose a colony of ants eats a plant. How much of the plant's energy is passed to the ants?
What is 10%?
300
Which is NOT a method of conserving resources: a. recycle b. reduce c. restore d. reuse
What is c. restore?
400
An organism that makes its own food.
What is a producer?
400
A contest among organisms to find food, water, shelter, and space they need to live.
What is competition?
400
Animals that eat other animals.
What are predators?
400
Which process is not part of the nitrogen cycle? a. bacteria that live on some plant roots fix nitrogen gas. b. plants release nitrogen compounds during transpiration. c. bacteria break down animal wastes and dead organisms. d. lightening produces nitrogen compounds that dissolve in rain.
What is b. plants release nitrogen compounds during transpiration?
400
Which organism steals food from hosts or harm host in some way?
What are parasites?
500
An animal that eats plants or other animals.
What is a consumer?
500
A relationship between different kinds of organisms.
What is symbiosis?
500
Animals that are eaten by other animals.
What are prey?
500
Which term is correctly described? a. herbivore: second level consumer b. omnivore: producer c. carnivore: consumer d. decomposer: first level consumer
What is c. carnivore: consumer?
500
Which choice shows the order in which primary succession takes place: a. grass-soil-lichens-rock b. bare rock-lichens-grass-trees c. lichens-bare rock-grass-soil d. bare rock-soil-lichens-grass
What is b. bare rock-lichens-grass-trees
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