Vocab
This is something that is not alive in the environment...it has not been alive, never will be alive, and can't be alive.
What is an abiotic factor?
When an animal gets eaten by another animal it is this in a predator/ prey relationship. It is usually smaller than the other and its population is usually bigger.
What is the prey?
This is what an organism that eats both plants and animals is called.
What is an omnivore?
This is where the place where the organisms live and have a niche.
What is the habitat?
An ecosystem is made up of ONLY biotic factors.
What is false.
This is what you call 2 or more populations that take up the same space. We don't care about the abiotic factors yet.
What is a community?
Ecology is the study of this:
What is the interactions of organisms with one another and the environment?
This type of consumer eats only the producer... think herbivore.
What is a primary consumer?
The decomposers in an ecosystem only breakdown the top level consumers.
What is false?
These organisms eat whatever they can find which usually include the remains of dead animals.
What is a scavenger?
This is the role/job an organism has in their environment.
What is its niche?
This is the MN Biome St. Michael- Albertville is a part of (it has trees that lose their leaves every fall):
What is a deciduous forest?
The arrows in an food chain or food web point in this direction.
What is towards the thing doing the eating?
A community in a pond would include the fishes, turtles, frogs, cattails, dragonflies and water.
What is a false?
A niche is the role of a population in its community, including its environment and its relationships with other species.
What is true?
Rocks, water, air, sun, soil are all types of these factors. They are not alive, never have been alive, never will be alive.
What is abiotic?
These types of organisms break down dead and decaying organisms in an environment. Bacteria, insects, and fungi are all examples.
What is decomposers?
An pond ecosystem includes only the living things (fishes, cattails, ducks, turtles, frogs, dragonflies).
What is false.
This is the "top level consumer". In order for it to be considered top level it is a carnivore that does not have many predators. (They also eat secondary consumers)
What is the tertiary consumer?
Carnivores and herbivore are different because they eat different things. This is how they are similar.
What is they are both consumers?
All food chains start with this?
What is a producer?
When thinking of levels of organization a group of prairie dogs would be this:
What is a population?
These are the four types of ecosystems we have in MN.
What are the deciduous forest, coniferous forest, and the prairie/ grassland, aspen/ parkland?