Adaptations
Ecosystems
Niches and Habitats
Producers, Consumer, and Decomposers
Human Interaction with an Ecosystem
100
Describe a structural adaptation.
When an animal or plant has a PART that helps them survive.
100
What order would these words go in if we started the largest and worked towards the smallest? population, community, organism, ecosystem
ecosystem, community, population, organism
100
What do we call the home of an organism?
habitat
100
Where do producers get their energy?
The sun
100
Will reducing, reusing and recycling what we use have a positive or negative impact on an ecosystem?
Positive
200
Describe a behavioral adaptation.
When an animal does or changes something to better survive.
200
In a food change what is the MAIN source of energy.
The sun.
200
What do we call the job an organism plays within an ecosystem?
niche
200
If earthworms eat dead things in the soil, which would they be?
decomposer
200
What is one thing trees are used for that can eventually be recycled.
paper or cardboard
300
Describe what a carnivores teeth and feet would look like.
Sharp pointy teeth and sharp claws or talons.
300
What could be inserted in the missing part of this food chain? sun, grass, ___________, hawk
answers will vary
300
List 2 examples of an owl's niche?
Eat small rodents, eat small birds, control the numbers of animals that it eats.
300
What are the 3 types of consumers we talked about?
Herbivore, Omnivore, Carnivore
300
If humans put chemicals on their lawns or gardens will this have a positive or negative impact on the ecosystem?
negative
400
When food is gone in an area an animal migrates to another area. Is this a structural adaptation or behavioral?
Behavioral
400
What is the job of a decomposer and what is one example of decomposer?
eat dead and decaying plants and animals. mushrooms
400
What happens if all of a sudden there are no deer in the forest?
answers will vary
400
To support food web would you need more producers of consumers? Why?
Producers, there needs to be plants to support all the consumers who either eat the plants themselves or the animals that eat the plants.
400
Will planting trees, grass or shrubs to stop soil erosion have a positive or negative impact on an ecosystem.
Positive
500
An eagle has large eyes so that it can hunt from very high. Is this structural or behavioral?
Structural
500
All food chains combine to form what?
food web
500
If an organism becomes endangered or extinct what will happen to the food chain?
Organisms it ate will be come greater. Organisms that ate it will have trouble finding food. Other answers.
500
A frog is consumer, draw it's life cycle.
see pictures
500
It what ways can humans cause negative effects to an ocean ecosystem?
pollution, over fishing
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