What is an ecosystem?
Ecology is the study of _____?
different species, same species, and their environment
_____________ ecosystems are on land.
Terrestrial
________________ make their own food.
Producers
Food chains always start with a __________
Producer.
Tell us the two types of aquatic ecosystems.
Freshwater and saltwater.
Tell us three examples of SPECIES.
Open answer (dogs, cats, foxes, mice, eagles, etc.)
_______________ ecosystems are on water.
Aquatic
________________ are secondary consumers.
Carnivores
Food chains show pictures of the living things, joined by _________
arrows.
According to how they obtain food, living things in ecosystems and p__________ and c___________
producers / consumers
All the living things of the same species that live in an ecosystem is a _______________
Population
____ are the NON-LIVING components in an ecosystem.
Abiotic Factors
________ and _______ are consumers. They feed on other living things.
Carnivore and herbivore
Continue the food chain:
Producer --------->_______________ ---------->Secondary consumer
primary consumer
Tell us four types of terrestrial ecosystems.
Forests, grasslands, savannah, rain forest, deserts and tundra.
All the different populations of living things that live together in the same ecosystem is a _____________.
community.
An important part of ecosystems are the ____________ between living things and the environment.
relationships
Herbivores are _____________ consumers. They only feed on plants.
primary consumers
To show more than one food chain in an ecosystem we use food _________
webs.
Tell us the ecosystem where grass covers the ground, herbivores feed on this grass, and carnivores feed on this herbivores.
Grassland
There are two different types of physical environments in ecosystems: ______________ and _____________.
Terrestrial and aquatic.
What is biodiversity?
number of species in an area
What factors affect the different zones of marine biomes?
dissolved oxygen, light, and temperature
Tell an example of food chain:
Open answer (grass --> rabbit --> fox)
What is an organism that would live in the benthic zone?
hermit crab, coral, sea cucumber, sea sponge, anything on the ocean floor