What is a habitat?
A place where an organism lives.
What is the difference between a predator and prey?
A predator hunts, the prey is hunted.
What is a producer?
Producers are living things that create their own food.
What are consumers?
Consumers are usually animals that will eat the producers.
What is a decomposer?
Decomposers are usually bacteria.
What is the name of the organism at the top of an energy pyramid?
Apex predator
What is an ecosystem?
A community of living things in a specific area.
Name a producer
grass, plants, etc
What are 3 types of consumers?
Types of consumers are omnivores, carnivores, herbivores and decomposers.
What do decomposers do?
Decomposers eat dead plants and animals and turn them into chemical nutrients.
What is an invasive species?
A non-native species that causes damage in a new environment.
What is the difference between biotic and abiotic factors?
Biotic factors are living things; abiotic are non-living things.
What is the name given to a plant eating animal?
Herbivore
If an owl eats a mouse that ate grass, what role is the owl playing?
Secondary consumer
Where do decomposers live?
Decomposers usually live on the top lair of the soil.
List some reasons behind population loss.
Disease, habitat destruction, higher/lower populations of producers/consumers
What's the difference between a food chain and a food web?
Food chain is simple and in a straight line. A food web shows the multiple relationships within an ecosystem.
Which level of an energy pyramid has the most energy?
Level 1-Producer
Plankton is the main producer which is consumed by krill. Squid is the main diet of seals and eat krill to survive. How would you represent this feeding relationship as a food chain.
Plankton → krill → squid → seals
Can insects be decomposers, true or false?
Yes, insects can be decomposers.
What type of energy is lost between trophic levels?
Heat energy
Give 3 examples of a predator/prey relationship.
Bear/Fish
Wolf/Rabbit
etc
How do producers grow?
Producers grow by a process called photosynthesis.
What is the difference between a primary consumer and a secondary consumer?
The difference is primary consumers are herbivores and secondary consumers are carnivores.
Which level of an energy pyramid will you find decomposers?
None/all- they decomposer organisms at all levels