What makes up an ecosystem
What is the two things that make up an ecosystem?
Biotic and abiotic.
This is what we call the place where all the living and nonliving things interact
What is an ecosystem?
True or False
Caterpillars are consumers.
Yes of plants
Living things have needs that are met by their ..
What is environment?
Only ______________________ percent of the energy present at one level is available to the next trophic level.
10%
2%
5%
10%
The main source of energy for functioning ecosystems.
What is the sun?
A group of living things found in an ecosystem is called this
What is a community?
Are cats carnivores or omnivores?
Carnivores
An animal that eats producers are called?
Herbivore
The trophic level is known as the producer level.
First
Second
Third
Fourth
First
Makes the food that animals need to live.
What is a producer?
what is at the beginning of every food chain?
a producer, plant, grass
Birds are consumers or producers?
Consumers
What is the process called in which producers make their own food?
photosynthesis
What is an example of a primary consumer?
Mouse that eats seeds
Deer that eats grass
Squirrel that eats acorns
All three :)
A group of living things found in an ecosystem.
What is a community?
In this food chain, what are the carnivores?
grass->grasshopper->frog->snake-> hawk
frog, snake, hawk
Meaning of biotic
living
Are Plants alive?
Yes, they are even though they are different from animals and humans in many ways.
Which of the following statements best explains why most ecosystems will not have quaternary consumers?
There would not be enough energy to sustain a quaternary consumer level.
An environment cannot support that many organisms.
There would be too much competition for food for any animals to survive as quaternary consumers.
Tertiary consumers are already very large animals; their predators would have to be huge.
There would not be enough energy to sustain a quaternary consumer level.
All members of same type of organism in an ecosystem.
What is a population?
Omnivore meaning
What an animal that eats both plants and animals?
Name the non-living things found in an ecosystem.
What are light, soil, shade, air, and water.
What is an animal called that eats another animal for its energy?
Carnivore
Which of the following is an example of a tertiary consumer?
A frog that eats the grasshopper
A plant that produces energy from the sun
A snake that eats the frog
A grasshopper that eats the plant
A snake that eats the frog
Gets energy by eating food not producing it.
What is a consumer?
write a food chain ending with a decomposer.
grass->mouse->bacteria
In a pond ecosystem, which are the producers? A. big fish B. small fish C. tiny plants and algae D. tiny animals
C
In a forest, how do decomposers help other organisms survive?
They put nutrients back into the soil that plants use to grow.
Which of these trophic levels has the least chance to exist in a food chain?
Second
Fifth
First
Third
Fifth
When plants use the the sun's energy, water, and carbon dioxide to make their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
Do plants eat, drink, and breathe?
No, Plants absorb water, respire, and absorb sunlight
Which is a nonliving part of the ecosystem? A. tree B. sunlight C. squirrel D. bird
B
Elephants are terrestrial. Terrestrial means this
What is land-living?
In an example food chain, rabbits only eat plants. Which type of consumer are the rabbits?
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Quaternary
Primary
Describes how energy in an ecosystem flows from one organism to another.
What is a food chain?
Which organism is a producer? A. frog B. bird C. grass D. spider
Which statement is true? A. Plants and animals depend on sunlight. B. Producers depend on consumers. C. Only plants depend on sunlight. D. Only animals depend on sunlight.
A
The Sun is also the primary source of vitamin D for animals, which is essential for their growth. Vitamin D provides calcium, which helps form strong bones and teeth. Animals get vitamin D directly by exposure to the Sun or indirectly by eating plants.
When creating a food web, students include arrows. What do the arrows in a food web represent?
Arrows show the transfer of energy between organisms
The ultimate source of energy in ecosystems is from ____________________.
Sun
Shows how food chains combine in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
make a food chain using these organisms
bee, flower garden, daddy longlegs, robin, web-spinning spider
flower garden->bee->web-spinning spider->daddy
longlegs->robin
Name five things that tell us something is alive?
Movement, growth, reproduction, waste, and respiration
In an ecosystem, how are food webs and food chains different?
Food webs show the relationship between many different food chains in a single ecosystem.
About how much energy would be transferred to tertiary consumers if the producers begin with 25,000 kcal?
25 kcal
Name two things that break down decaying remains.
bacteria, mold, fungi, snails, pillbug, slug,
grass->grasshopper->frog->snake->hawk
If the snake disappears from the ecosystem what will happen?
Frogs will overpopulate and eat all the grasshoppers and the hawk will die it has no food.
What is an animal called that eats the leftovers of dead animal carcuses?
Scavenger
What is an autotroph?
An autotroph is an organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals. Because autotrophs produce their own food, they are sometimes called producers.
What is the same feeding position in a food chain or food web called?
Trophic level
Biomass
Metabolism
Carrying capacity
Trophic level