Ecosystems
Food Chains
Food Webs
Adaptations
Miscellaneous
100
The smallest unit of an ecosystem (based on Ecological Organization)
What is Organism?
100
A diagram in a series showing the transfer of energy from one organism to the next in an ecosystem.
For example: algae is eaten by snails/ ducks eat snails/ foxes eat ducks
What is a food chain?
100
A system of interconnected and interdependent food chains.
What is a food web?
100
A physical feature that helps an organism survive in it's environment.
What is a structural adaptation?
100
An organism that gets energy by eating other organisms.
What is a consumer?
200
Group of animals of the same species within a given area
What is a Population?
200
Arrows in a food chain show that this is being transferred.
What is energy?
200
The organisms responsible for creating energy within a food web.
What are producers?
200
Something an animal does that helps it survive.
What is a behavioral adaptation?
200
Protecting animal habitats, recycling, and planting trees in a community are examples.
What are positive human factors?
300
Multiple populations of organisms within a given area.
What is a Community?
300
This is the SOURCE of energy in a food chain.
What is the sun?
300
Organisms in food webs that consume plants and animals.
What are omnivores?
300
When an animal changes it's body color to blend into the surroundings.
What is camouflage?
300
Green algae in a farmer's pond is an example of this.
What is a producer?
400
All the organisms and the abiotic factors they depend on for survival within a given area.
What is an Ecosystem?
400
This is the first organism in a food chain.
What is a producer?
400
A bobcat is an example of one in this food web.
What is a carnivore?
400
Moving from one place to another. These animals are in search of a new temporary habitat because of the season, change of weather or lack of food.
What is migration?
400
In this ecosystem, the relationship between the fox and the rabbit.
sun--->clover--->rabbit--->fox
What is predator-prey?
500
The natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.
What is a habitat?
500
This part of the food chain breaks down dead organisms and helps the nutrients go back into the soil.
What is a decomposer?
500
The number of carnivores in this food web.
What is 3?
500
When an animal looks like or sounds like another animal for survival (it can copy behaviors).
What is mimicry?
500
Clearing forests to build houses and polluting the water and air.
What are negative human factors?