Biomes
Food Chains and Webs
Scenarios
Predators and Prey
Classifications
100
This biome receives between 25 and 75 centimeters of rain each year; populated by grasses and many large herbivores.
What is GRASSLAND
100
True or False: A food web consists of many interconnected food chains.
What is TRUE
100
A grasshopper survives off eating plants in it's habitat. Who is the producer and who is the consumer.
What is GRASSHOPPER CONSUMER AND PLANT IS PRODUCER.
100
Who is the predator and who is the prey in predation? Give an example.
What is The predator is the organism that does the killing in predation and the prey is the organism being killed in the interaction.
100
How does "classifying" help scientists investigate the natural world?
What is : Scientists classify things in their natural world to group them based on their similarities. This allows them to compare and contrast living and non-living things in their environments.
200
This biome is hot in the daytime, cool or cold at night; very dry; organisms are adapted to extreme temperatures and dry conditions.
What is DESERT
200
In an energy pyramid, where is the highest level of energy?
What is THE BOTTOM of the PYRAMID.
200
A redfox eats a heron, a garter snake, and a frog. All three organisms that the red fox eats, eat grasshoppers. Who is the primary consumer, secondary, and tertiary?
What is Primary consumer=grasshoppers Secondary consumer=heron, snake, frog Tertiary consumer=Red fox
200
Define mutualism and explain how the relationship between a hummingbird and a flower in an example of mutualism.
What is Mutualism is the relationship in which both species benefit.
200
Classify the following list and explain why you chose to classify in the way you did: savannas, praries, sand, lizards.
What is Savannas and praries are apart of the grassland biome and sand and lizards are apart of the desert biome.
300
This biome has extremely cold winters, warmer summers; windy; very dry; no trees, only low-growing plants.
What is TUNDRA
300
Why are there usually fewer organisms at the top of an energy pyramid?
What is So much energy is converted to heat at each level,the amount of energy available at the producer level limits the number of consumers that the ecosystem is able to support. As a result, there are usually fewer organisms at the highest levels in a food web.
300
Scientists report that there is too much fishing in a specific area of the Mississippi River. How can this affect its ecosystem?
What is Organisms that eat the fish could become endangered due to starvation.
300
How can predation have a major effect on a prey population size?
What is If too many predators are in an area, a decrease in the size of the prey population often results.
300
Which pair of terms could apply to the same organism? a. carnivore and producer b. consumer and carnivore c. scavenger and herbivore d. producer and omnivore
What is B. Consumer and Carnivore
400
This biome has warm, rainy summers; very cold winters with heavy snow; trees produce cones with seeds that are eaten by many animals.
What is TAIGA or BOREAL FOREST
400
The first organism in a food web is always a(n):
What is PRODUCER.
400
An ecologist takes an adventure up a mountain, at the highest elevation, the ecologist saw bare rock, very little vegetation, and few birds. The ecologist had to wear very warm clothes. Which biome is he or she in?
What is TUNDRA
400
A barn owl is a predator in a forest. It hunts small mice and other animals at night. What is the owls habitat? What is its niche? How do its habitat and niche differ?
What is The owls habitat is the forest. It's niche is the forest, and the small mice and animals it consumes. Its habitat and niche differ because its habitat only includes the environment that provides the things it needs to live, grow, and reproduce.
400
Mushrooms, bacteria, and fungi recycle dead organisms back into the ecosystem as carbon. Mushrooms, bacteria, and fungi can be classified as _____________.
What is DECOMPOSERS.
500
This biome has warm temperatures that do not vary much throughout the year; very wet and humid; greater variety of species than any other biome.
What is TROPICAL RAINFOREST
500
How are food chains and food webs different?
What is Food chains are a series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. Food webs consist of many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
500
A tick was found on Ms. Snyder's dog. The tick and the dog's relationship demonstrates ______________.
What is PARASITISM. Who is the host and who is the parasite?
500
Competition for resources in an area is usually more intense within a single species than between two different species. Suggest an explanation for this observation.
What is (answers may vary) Ms. Snyder's discretion.
500
Tigers and lions hunt and kill other living things before eating them. Based on this mode of nutrition, lions and tigers are classified as A. predators B. scavengers C. saprophytes D. decomposers
What is PREDATORS
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