Predator or Prey
What is a predator?
An animal that hunts another animal.
What does producer mean?
An organism that makes it own food.
Is a balanced ecosystem always unchanging?
No.
How do I know something is living? HINT: What does it need to survive?
It needs food, water, air, and sunlight. It can also reproduce.
What is a prey?
An animal that is being hunted by another animal.
Is a tree a producer?
Yes
True.
How do I know something is nonliving?
It doesn't need food, water, sunlight or air. It can not reproduce.
What is an example of a predator?
Lion, tiger, wolf...etc.
What is a consumer and what is an example?
A consumer is a plant or animal that eats other plants or animals. Examples are venus fly traps, humans, deer, lions, snakes, etc. Answers will vary.
True or False. If the plant population decreases in an ecosystem it is possible that it would not affect the deer in the same ecosystem?
False, it would affect the population of deer, it may decrease.
Is a branch that fell of a tree living or nonliving?
Living. It used to be a living thing so it's still living.
What is an example of a prey?
Bunny, Zebra, Mice...etc.
Is a bee a decomposer?
No.
What does interdependent mean?
Living things depend on other living things in order to live. All living things depend on plants directly or indirectly.
Why are nonliving things important?
Rocks provide soil for plants to grow, the sun helps plants grow, and water provides life for plants and animals.
Give an example of a predator and the prey.
Lion and zebra, wolf and bunny, hawk and mouse...etc
Give three examples of decomposers.
Mushroom, fungi, bacteria. Answers may vary.
What would happen if the coral in a coral reef died? How would it make the reef ecosystem unbalanced?
Answers will vary...
Is soil biotic or abiotic?
Abiotic