Food Chains and Webs
Mice eat only plants. Are mice herbivores, carnivores, or omnivores?
Herbivores
What is evaporation?
When liquid water turns to vapour.
Fish have gills. Is this an example of an adaptation or transpiration?
Adaptation
Is a gaming device an example of need or a want?
Want
True or False?
Grass, trees and squirrels are abiotic parts of an ecosystem.
False
What is the source of energy for all food chains and food webs?
The sun
Plants release what into the atmosphere? (Carbon dioxide or oxygen)
Oxygen
What kind of scientist studies ecology?
An ecologist
State the one that doesn’t match.
Water
Food
Skateboard
A place to live(habitat)
Skateboard
Water, rocks, air. Are these biotic or abiotic?
Abiotic
In a food chain, which direction does the energy flow?
From the sun to producers and then consumers
Describe what plants and trees do in the carbon cycle.
They take in carbon dioxide from the environment.
You are the kind of person who keeps the water on when you brush your teeth. Is your ecological footprint large or small?
Large
Describe the four needs of ALL living things.
Water, nutrients (food), gas exchange, habitat
This type of succession occurs when lichen and moss grow on bare rocks.
Primary succession
Which animal would have the most chemicals built up in it’s system due to biomagnification: a small fish like a minnow or a large fish like a tuna?
Tuna
What are the four main ways that water moves through the water cycle?
Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation, Transpiration
If a pesticide, such as DDT gets into a food chain it moves up the food chain to the top level. What is this process called?
Biomagnification
When you use plastic containers instead of sandwich bags, which of the 3Rs are you doing?
Reduce and Reuse
After a forest fire, the forest will regenerate. What is this process called?
Secondary succession
Decomposers get their energy by eating waste material and returning what back to the soil?
Nutrients
How do animals contribute to the addition of carbon into the atmospere? What is the term?
Respiration (breathing out carbon dioxide).
What is something that you can change every day to reduce your carbon footprint?
Answers vary - teacher discretion.
True or False:
All organisms breath in oxygen.
False - animals do, but plants take in carbon dioxide.
Which type of succession takes longer to end up with a mature forest of large trees?
Primary succession.