Roles of Organisms in Ecosystems
Food Chains and Food Webs
Energy Flow in an Ecosystem
Matter Cycles
Other
100
What do scavengers eat?
What is dead animals
100
Start with ________ and end with ___________.
What is producers, consumers
100
Food chains show how each organism uses the energy and how much is used (T/F)
What is false
100
Recycled in ecosystems (3 things)
What is –oxygen, water, carbon
100
Change of state from gas to liquid
What is (condensation)
200
_______________________ make their own food. _______________________ must eat other organisms to obtain energy.
What is (producers, consumers)
200
A food web may contain several food chains T/F
What is true
200
Food is consumed for energy; some of it is converted to _____________________ and _____________.
What is (carbon dioxide, water)
200
What breaks down decaying plant and animal matter into small pieces
What is (detrivores)
200
Can run off the surface of the earth into bodies of water or remained trapped under the surface of Earth for years as groundwater
What is (precipitation)
300
________________________ and ______________________ eat dead plants and animals and their wastes. (detrivores, decomposers)
What is (detrivores, decomposers)
300
What is lost at every level of the food chain
What is (energy)
300
The 3 ways energy gets used.
What is (life functions, gas and waste, body growth and repair)
300
What further breaks down matter to release nutrients back into the environment
What is (decomposers)
300
______________________ from the air is taken in by plants, which use it to make sugar.
What is (carbon dioxide)
400
Give 2 examples of herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores.
What is (various answers acceptable)
400
A visual representation of the loss of energy at each level of the food chain
What is ecological pyramids
400
Percentage of energy stored in the bodies or organisms at each level available to the organism at the next highest level
What is (10%)
400
Change of state from liquid to gas
What is (evaporation)
400
Healthy ecosystems are _______________________ Hint: means it can be sustained indefinitely as long as there is the recycling of matter
What is (sustainable)
500
Explain the process of photosynthesis.
What is plants use water, carbon dioxide, and sunlight to produce sugars.
500
Number of organisms at each level of a food chain or web (the visual representation).
What is (number pyramids)
500
The 4 levels in a pyramid of numbers.
What is (producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, tertiary consumers)
500
______________________ forms when air at Earth’s surface becomes warm and rises.
What is (Clouds)
500
Water ________________________. It rises and condenses and then falls as precipitation.
What is (evaporates)
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