Living/ Non-Living
A living thing
What is an Organism?
Describe an Organism that only eats plants
What is a Primary Consumer?
What is the smallest group in an ecosystem
What is an Organism?
Describe what all living things are mostly made out of
What are Carbon and Water?
Ways animals or animals act or how their body changes to help them survive in their environment
What are adaptations?
Which is nonliving? A squirrel, two raccoons, a snake, a rock, a palm tree
What is a rock?
Describe an animal that eats other animals.
What is a secondary consumer?
A population
What is all of one kind of a species that lives in an ecosystem?
Describe three factors that negatively impact an ecosystem.
What is over population, over hunting, invasive species?
This biome is located on the poles of the globe and the community is made up of penguins, permafrost, and birds
What is the Arctic?
Which of the following is an example of a living thing: a feather, water, a beetle, rocks, a waterfall
What is a beetle?
The process of breaking down a once-living object into small pieces that are usable once again
What is decomposition?
Describe what would make up a woodland community
What is a deer, a squirrel, grasses
Describe the energy in a food web.
What are the producers?
Which state, in the United States, is covered mostly by desert?
What is Arizona?
Three of the signs of life of living things
What is moving, growing and changing, responding, needing food, and getting rid of waste? (Any three)
Describe three examples of organisms that carry out decomposition.
What are mushrooms, yeast, bacteria?
Describe the difference between a habitat and a community
What is a habitat is the background of an ecosystem- the living plants and nonliving things- no animals. A community is all the living things (plants and animals) in an ecosystem
Describe what makes up soil.
What is air, water, minerals, and organic matter
Which type of living thing could adapt by hunting at night or shedding its coat
What are animals?
In order to survive, all living things need:
What is space, shelter, air (oxygen), food, and water?
If one animal was to eat another animal, then the matter that made up the first animal would become the matter of the second animal
What is the conservation of mass in a food web?
Describe an ecosystem
What is an area of land and all the living and nonliving things that interact within it?
Describe three factors that increase the rate of decomposition.
What is temperature, oxygen, water, size, area, sunlight? (Any three)
Another way to say plants and animals need oxygen is saying they need...
What is air?