Living Things
What is the basic unit of life?
What is a cell?
The term is used for non-living components of an environment
What are abiotic factors
What is an ecosystem?
What is a community of living organisms interacting with their environment?
What is a predator?
What is an organism that hunts and eats other organisms?
What is a prey?
What is an organism that is hunted and eaten by predators?
The process plants use to make their food.
What is photosynthesis?
Name a non-living component that is essential for life.
What is water?
The difference between a food chain and a food web.
What is a food chain is a linear sequence, while a food web is a complex network of interconnected food chains?
Name one adaptation that predators may have.
What is camouflage or sharp teeth?
Name one adaptation that prey animals may have for survival.
What is speed or camouflage?
Name the two main types of cells.
What are prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells?
The role of soil in an ecosystem.
What is to provide nutrients and support for plants?
The producers, consumers, and decomposers relationship
What are producers make their own food, consumers eat other organisms, and decomposers break down dead matter?
How do predators impact the population of their prey?
What is they help control the population size and health of prey species?
How do prey animals protect themselves from predators?
What are running, hiding, or using defensive mechanisms?
The term for a group of organisms of the same species living in the same area?
What is a population?
The gas plants take in during photosynthesis.
What is carbon dioxide?
Name one biotic and one abiotic factor in all ecosystems
What are a tree (biotic) and sunlight (abiotic)?
What is the term for a predator that hunts at night?
What is a nocturnal predator?
What is the relationship between predators and prey called?
What is a predator-prey relationship?
What are the levels of ecological organization from smallest to largest?
What are organism, population, community, ecosystem, biome, and biosphere?
The difference between weather and climate.
What is weather is short-term atmospheric conditions, while climate is long-term average conditions.
How does energy flow through an ecosystem?
What is energy flows from producers to consumers and then to decomposers?
Describe the role of apex predators in an ecosystem.
What are apex predators regulate populations of other species and maintain balance in the ecosystem?
How can environmental changes affect prey populations?
What is changes in habitat, food availability, or predator presence can lead to population declines or growth?