Vocabulary
A non-living part of an ecosystem
What is abotic?
Two box turtles live in an area in a zoo's reptile house. Zoo visitors made a list of observations of the turtles. The list is shown.
1. Sliding into a small pond
2. Eating a strawberry
3. Digging a hole in the sandy soil
4. Climbing onto a flat rock
5. Holding an earthworm in its mouth
6. Walking across the area
Which observations best describe how box turtles interact with living parts of their environment?
What is observations 2 and 5?
An organism that breaks down dead plants and animal matter
What is a decomposer?
another word for helpful
What is beneficial?
make something new from something old
What is recycle?
An organism that eats other organisms
What is a consumer?
Sand, rock, water, gravel, and the sun.
What are abiotic factors in an ecosystem?
An organism that makes it's own food
What is a producer?
To cause damage
What is harmful?
Throw an object away
What is disposal?
An area where living and non-living parts of an environment interact
What is an ecosystem?
The living or once living parts of an ecosystem
What is biotic?
An organism that only eats producers
What is a herbivore?
What are the 3Rs?
a natural resource that cannot be used up or that can be replaced
What is a renewable resource?
The introduction of a substance that harms the environment
What is pollution?
A rabbit breathing air while running down a rocky path
What is a rabbit interacting with two nonliving parts of it's habitat?
An organism that eats both producers and consumers?
What is an omnivore?
Driving cars, factories, gathering natural resources, littering and oil spills.
How humans are harmful to the ecosystems?
or
How humans pollute the ecosystem?
The process of protecting a natural resource
What is conservation?
A place or environment an organism usually lives
What is habitat?
Plants, animals, decomposers, humans
What are biotic factors in an ecosystem?
A living thing
What is an organism?
A biologist and author whom wrote a book in 1962 alerting the public to environmental pollution.
Who is Rachel Carson?
Oil, coal, and natural gas
What are fossil fuels?