Types of Organisms
Relationships
Ecosystems 1
Food Webs
Ecosystems 2
Earth's Systems
Chemical Reaction
100
something that produces food for itself
What is a producer?
100
Fungi are on the food chain and they are responsible for ________________
What is breaking down decaying materils
100
the living and nonliving things and the ways they interact in an environment (ex: redwood forest, swamp, Mojave Desert)
What is an ecosystem?
100
Food chains that is interconnected/overlaps in a particular ecosystem
What is a food web?
100
A plant goes through these two processes...
What are photosynthesis and cellular respiration.
100
The three spheres on earth are...
What are, the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere.
100
The three conditions that cause a chemical reaction
What is mixing, cooling, and heating
200
something that eats something else for food
What is a consumer?
200
Any living thing that feeds on the waste of dead bodies of other living things.
What is a decomposer?
200
Living organisms in an ecosystem
What is biotic?
200
What happens when you go down the food pyramid
The energy level goes down
200
All organisms go through this process
What is cellular respiration
200
The common precursor of these natural disasters, tsunamis, volcanoes, and landslides
what isan earthquake
200
Energy that is being exited from a reaction
What is exothermic reaction
300
any living thing that feeds on both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
300
A relationship when one organism lives on or in another for nourishment.
What is parasitism?
300
Two basic types of ecosystems are...
What are terrestrial and aquatic ecisystems?
300
a system of overlapping food chains
What is a food web?
300
Environmental changes happen all the time. Some of these changes are easy to spot. For example, the figure below shows a sign that you might see while riding along a road in many places.
What can you conclude about environmental changes after seeing this sign?
Humans can destroy/change habitats.
300
The process that moves water
What is the water cycle
300
Energy that is being absorbed
what is endothermic reaction
400
any animal that feeds mainly on plants; plant-eater
What is a herbivore?
400
Animals ____________ for food, water, territory, and mates.
What is an compete?
400
The two conditions that determine the type of biome is present...
What is Temperature and rainfall.
400
the flow of energy from a producer to one or more consumers. (ie: linked together by their feeding relationships)
What is a food chain?
400
There are only a few different species of plants, animals, and insects so there is low __________.
What is low diversity/biodiversity?
400
The process that involves the geosphere
What is the rock cycle
400
When an exothermic reaction is happening, Is the energy going to be in the reactants or the products?
What is the products
500
Three types of organisms in an ecosystem.
What are producers, consumers, and decomposers?
500
A relationship when both benefit each other.
What is mutualism?
500
living and nonliving things are parts that make this.
What are ecosystems?
500
The arrows in a food chain and food web represent....
What is the flow of energy?
500
If an insect species lives in only a certain type of plant and that plant is removed, what part of the insects’ life is being affected?
What is its niche?
500
The three types of rocks
What are sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous.
500
a process in which one or more new substances form from one or more other substances.
What is chemical reaction
600
A gorilla, hog, raccoon, human are examples of .....
What are Omnivores?
600
The specie that is the main support of the ecosystem's biodiversity
What is a Keystone Species
600
The following picture shows a prickly pear, which has spiny, flat joints and thick, rounded stems that store water.
To which of the following types of environments is a prickly pear best suited?
What is the desert?
600
On the pyramid what is the organism that eats the producer called
What are primary consumers?
600
Many of the same species is a...
What is a population?
600
When a resources is replenished as fast as it is used up
What is a renewable resource
600
a type of test that medical scientists perform to assess a medicine's effectiveness
What is clinical trials
700
Animals that eat dead or decaying organisms that prevent spread of disease..
what is a scavenger
700
A 'role' or 'function' of an organisms ______ includes what it eats.
What is a niche?
700
Which of the following is the main feature of the environment to which the plants shown in the figure have adapted?
What is the lack of water?
700
At the bottom of the food pyramid, what are those organisms called
What are producers
700
Can overhunting of animals within an ecosystem have an impact on the ecosystem? Why?
Yes, overhunting of the animals could cause the other consumers to find a new place to live or they could die without their food source.
700
The two conditions that are present in the rock cycle that causes the rocks to change
What is heat and pressure
700
matter that has no definite shape and no definite volume
what is gas