The term that could be used to describe the living and non-living factors of a wetland
What is an ecosystem?
100
I am hunted and consumed by another organism.
What is prey?
100
One of the following is a non-living factor in an ecosystem: fish, trees, air, plants.
What is air?
100
I create my own food from sunlight.
What are producers?
200
Three items that producers provide to help consumers.
What are oxygen, food, and shelter?
200
I consume other animals.
What is a predator?
200
I am a reason why dead trees are an important part of a forest ecosystem.
What is (answers may vary)?
200
I am the primary source of energy for all organisms.
What is the sun?
300
The units used to measure water temperature are _______.
What are degrees?
300
One of the following is an example of a predator/prey relationship:
A. fox/tree
B. gull/duck
C. deer/grass
D. rockfish/minnow.
What is D. rockfish/minnow?
300
I am the reason eagles build their nests far away from other eagles.
What is the amount of available food (competition)?
300
Arrows in a food chain or web show this.
What is where the energy goes?
400
An organism can either use its energy immediately or ______ __.
What is store it?
400
Fish are removed from the shoreline ecosystem. This will happen to the predators that feed on them (use the words increase or decrease).
What is the predators will decrease (because they will die from lack of food)?
400
Three of the following are considered once living: twig on the ground, prey killed by a predator, dragonfly, sunlight, fallen leaf.
What is twig on the ground, prey killed by a predator, and fallen leaf?
400
I am many interconnecting food chains.
What is a food web?
500
I am defined as 2 or more things affecting each other.
What is an interaction?
500
The number of hawks in the meadow ecosystem increased. This is a hypothesis (educated guess) about the population of mice that could have made the number of hawks increase.
What is the population of mice increased?
500
One of the following does not describe a living and non-living factor interaction inside of an ecosystem: effect of salinity on the type of aquatic producers, effect of water depth on the type of fish, effect of wind direction on worms, or the effect of sunlight on plants.
What is the effect of wind direction on worms?
500
Describe how energy passes through a food chain. Begin with the primary source of energy.