Vocabulary
Food Webs
Ecological Succession and Environmental Changes
Food Pyramids and Food Chains
Ecosystems
100
What is a producer?
an organism that makes its own food DAILY DOUBLE: NAME ONE PRODUCER
100
What are mice, squirrels and rabbits
herbivores, consumers
100
What does this picture represent?
Ecological succession
100
Which part of the food pyramid has the MOST energy?
The bottom
100
Identify 3 consumers (heterotrophs) in these ecosystems
human, frog, fish, deer, rabbit
200
What is the vocabulary word for: all the different populations in a region
Community DAILY DOUBLE: WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN COMMUNITY AND POPULATION?
200
Which three organisms in the food web are competing for the same food resource?
mouse, grasshopper, bird
200
What is changing in this picture?
The pond
200
Name three animals that can fit in the top of the food pyramid.
any carnivore
200
What is the main source of energy for these ecosystems?
Sun
300
What is carnivore that attacks, kills, and feed on its prey
Predator
300
What is the autotroph in the food web?
plants
300
What are abiotic factors that characterize a forest ecosystem include
temperature and amount of available water
300
What are the 3 categories for the food pyramid?
producer, herbivore, carnivore
300
Identify one organism in these ecosystems that produces glucose. (autotroph, or producer).
grass, tree
400
what vocabulary word is: the part of the environment in which an organism lives
habitat
400
Which animals are carnivores?
sparrow, owl, hawk, fox
400
What will happen to the ecosystem if the temperature changes?
certain animals will leave and the animals on the food chain/web will have to adapt
400
What do the arrows in the diagram represent?
flow of energy
400
What makes a stable ecosystem?
you cannot have consumers without producers
500
What is ecological succession?
orderly process by which one biotic community is replaced with another
500
What are the 4 types of consumers?
carnivore, herbivore, omnivore, decomposers
500
If there is an ecological succession in a habitat what will the animals have to do?
They will have to adapt to the replacement
500
What is the difference between a food web and a food chain?
food webs are multiple food chains intertwined
500
Identify one external feature (part of the body) of the manatee that allows it to live in water.
flippers
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