Vocabulary Roles
Organisms that can create their own food are called?
Producers
Name a consumer within the Tropical Rainforest.
Toucan, Cheetah, Poison Dart Frog, Tree Frog
Wet and muddy.Often known to have many alligators, amphibians, and birds with long legs.
Swamps
Without an adaptation, the snake's population is severely decreased from a new virus. Name a direct cause to the mice population.
The mice population will increase.
What is the name for animals who only eat grass, nuts and berries?
Herbivore
What is the name of an organism that can NOT create its own food?
Consumer
Name a common decomposer.
Mushroom
Also known as a biome, this location has organisms that process oxygen differently than breathing in.
Ocean
A forest fire destroys almost all vegetation within the area. Name an effect that may occur.
1. The mice's population decreases due to a shortage of food supply.
2. The Hawk's population decreases due to loss of home.
3. Snake's population increases due to decreases in predators population.
What is the name for organisms that only eat other animals?
Carnivore
What is the name of the role for the organisms that return nutrients back to the soil using dead and decaying organisms?
Decomposers
Name a producer within the ocean.
Algae or plankton
Warm and humid. Contains colorful vegetation and a canopy of tree lines.
Tropical Rainforest
A spike in the number of eggs that hatch causes the Hawk's population to increase. Name an effect that will occur to the mice population.
Decrease
(Unless the Hawk begins to eat the mice population to survive, therefor the mice population will also decrease.)
These organisms eat all type of organisms, regardless of what they are made of.
Omnivore
Ecosystems are made up of _______ and ______ factors.
Biotic and Abiotic factors
What direction does a food chain or food web flow in?
Vertical. Starts at bottom and goes up.
Suffers from a limited source of vegetation and coloring.
Tundra
A dry summer has caused the grass to die off by half of the amount and the mice have since been starving and the weak and young have not survived. What will occur with the Hawk population and why?
The Hawk's population will decrease because the decrease in mice population will cause the snakes population to decrease. The Hawk will now have less prey as well and will thus suffer the same effects.
Living and non-living factors within the same location help to create a(n) _____?
Ecosytem
Name the three levels of consumers within a food chain or food web.
Primary, Secondary, and Teritary
The arrows within a food chain or food web are demonstrating the flow of _____ from organism to organism.
Energy
Often dry and warm, this mid-spherical location on Earth is home to a vast amount of creatures that can be found roaming on the prowl.
Savannah Grasslands
A second secondary consumer has been entered within the chain chain. Name 1 effect that may now occur?
1. The snakes population decreases due to an increase in competition for food.
2. The mice's population severely decreases due to increase in predators.
3. Hawk's population increases due to increase of prey.
The direct linkage between the small scale of producers and consumers within a habitat demonstrates a ________.
Food Chain