A dry, sandy region with little rainfall is called this.
What is a desert?
100
Every food chain begins with this.
What is the sun?
100
When there is too much water and plants drown, we call this a _____.
What is a flood?
100
A food web has many ___________ linked together.
What is food chains?
100
An area in which the main plants are trees is called this.
What is a forest?
200
A large body of salt water that covers more than 70 percent of the Earth
What is the ocean?
200
Animals are consumers, and plants are______.
What is producers?
200
When there is too little water and plants and animals die without it, we call this a _______.
What is drought?
200
Without this, the food web would not exist.
What is the sun?
200
An animal that cannot produce its own food and relies on other organisms for its nutrition is called a __________.
What is consumer?
300
A beaver lives in this kind of ecosystem.
What is a pond?
300
This gets passed through the food chain.
What is energy?
300
Bees are an important part of the ecosystem. This would happen to the producers if bees were taken away.
What is: die?
300
At the end of every food web is this.
What is decomposers?
300
List the following items in order from beginning to end in a food chain: apple tree, sun, caterpillar, bird
What is: sun, apple tree, caterpillar, bird
400
The three things that make up an ecosystem
What is living things, non-living things, and once-living things?
400
A lion hunts and kills animals for food. It is a _____.
What is a predator/ secondary consumer/ carnivore?
400
This is what happens to the soil if all the animals leave an ecosystem.
What is: erode? Soil depends on animals and plants decomposing to keep nutrients rich. Without them, the soil becomes bad and cannot grow anything new.
400
In a food web, arrows show where the ___________ goes.
What is energy?
400
A group of the same kind of living things that live in the same place at the same time is a _____
What is population?
500
This word describes everything around an organism
What is environment?
500
Organisms that come earliest in a food chain are ______.
What is producers? (plants)
500
List some negative changes humans can make to an ecosystem.
What is: use herbicides or pesticides, litter, etc. (There are many ideas we can share here!)
500
List two animals who are secondary consumers in a food web.
What is: snakes, hawks, etc (many ideas can be given).
500
One of these consumer does not belong. Which one might it be and why? Tiger, Killer Whale, Grizzly Bear, Squirrel.
What is squirrel? The other animals are usually at the very top of a food web.