Organisms
An animal that eats living things is a...
What is a consumer?
A group of food chains that overlap.
What is a food web?
All ecosystems are the same, true or false?
What is false?
Which of the following events would cause a decrease in the owl population of an ecosystem?
CIRCLE ALL THAT APPLY!!!
a) logging b) forest fire
c) oil spill in the ocean
d) a large group of bobcats move into the area
a) logging
b) forest fire
d) a large group of bobcats move into the area
Which of the following do herbivores eat?
What is a producer (or plant)?
A plant is a...
What is a producer.
A series of organisms that depend on one another for food...
What is a food chain?
A community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
What is an ecosystem?
Owl populations are often affected by the West Nile virus. If the virus wiped out the world’s owl population, we would call this .
a) abundance b) extinction
c) scarcity d) endangered
b) extinction
Which of these must a pond food chain have?
A. algae
B. sunlight
C. tiny fish
D. Whales
What is b, sunlight?
A organism that eats dead and decaying matter...
What is a decomposer?
What is a food chain?
A group of the same type of living thing in the same ecosystem...
What is a population?
Using observations from your worm investigations and the design of your model habitat, what can you conclude about why worms are more than bait?
Worms are more than bait because they are decomposers that break down the waste of dead materials and return nutrients to the soil.
If one part of the ecosystem is removed:
it affects the entire ecosystem
Herbivores and omnivores both eat...
What is a producer?
What is a predator?
All of the populations that live in the same place...
What is a community?
What is an owl pellet?
it’s owl vomit that includes the bones, fur, and hair of prey
Every food chain begins with ____________
the SUN
What is a term to describe an herbivore, carnivore, and omnivore?
What is a consumer?
What is the loss of energy along a food chain shown as?
What is an energy pyramid?
Which animals are hunted, prey or predator?
What is a prey?
All consumers get their energy from .
the plants and animals they eat
All consumers get their energy from .
the plants and animals they eat