What do you call all living things.
Organism
A lion is a
Consumer
What is the smallest group in an ecosystem
What is an organism
What does every food chain start with?
The sun
Which one is Abiotic?
A squirrel, two raccoons, a snake, a rock, a palm tree
What is a rock
A mushroom is a
Decomposer
What biome would be described as dry.
What is the desert
Berries -> Rabbit -> Fox ->
What consumer comes after a fox?
Which of the following is an example of a Biotic Factor a feather, water, a beetle, rocks, a waterfall
What is a beetle
Name two things that are decomposers?
Which biome would be described as aquatic?
What is marine, coral reef, etc.
Berries -> Rabbit -> Fox
What would be the cause of an increase in Rabbits in an ecosystem?
Decrease in the Fox population
Do Biotic factors need Abiotic factors to survive? Why/ Why not?
Plants need them to grow which starts the food chain and consumers would not exist.
What do all producers need to get energy?
The Sun
Describe the difference between a habitat and a community
What is a habitat is the background of an ecosystem- the living plants and nonliving things- no animals. A community is all the living things (plants and animals) in an ecosystem
How is the tundra biome different from the desert biome?
What is the tundra is dry and mostly cold. The desert biome is dry and mostly hot.
Why are decomposers important to a food chain?
Eat the dead animal and plants and return nutrients into the soil so more producers can grow and the food chain continue.
What are 3 Biotic factors and 3 Abiotic factors that are in our community (label them Biotic & Abiotic)
Answers Vary...
What would happen if all of the consumers disappeared?
What biome do we line in?
Forest or Deciduous Biomes
Explain how the mouse effects 2 other animals in this food web.
If no mice then owls (fox/ Hawk) have to eat frogs (rabbits/ Snakes).