Consumers
Food Chain
Vocabulary
Adaptations
Factors That Affect Ecosystems
100
Consumers that are eaten by other living things. Hint: Mice are the hawk's ________.
What is prey?
100
In a food chain with a coyote, grass, and a bunny, what would the consumers be?
What is bunnyand coyote? The bunny and the coyote are consumers because they both cannot make their own food and eat other living things for energy.
100
These three types of living things make up the food chain: this living thing can make its own food, this living thing eats other plants or animals because it cannot make its own food, and the last living thing breaks down dead and plant animal matter (to create nutrients for the soil). Can you name all 3 types of living things?
What is a decomposer, consumer, and producer?
100
A color or shape that helps the animal blend with its environment. Hint: A chamelon uses this type of adaptation.
What is camouflage?
100
These are living parts of an ecosystem. Hint: Caterpillars, sheep, plants, birds, and people
What is biotic factors?
200
A consumer that eats prey.
What is a predator?
200
The base of an energy pyramid is so wide because _____________________________________.
The base of an energy pyramid is wide because first level consumers (herbivores) need a lot of food because only 10 percent of energy from food is stored for future use. The energy pyramid narrows as it moves the top of the pyramid.
200
There are three types of consumers: __________ which are living things that only eat meat, _____________ which are living things that only eat plants, and ___________ which are living things that eat plants and animals.
What is carnivores, herbivores, and omnivores?
200
A group of living things that have died out of exsistance. Hint: Dinosaurs and Do-Do birds.
What is extinction?
200
Non-living parts of an ecosystem. Example: sunlight, air, water, and soil
What is abiotic factors?
300
Fungi and earthworms are considered _____________.
What is decomposers?
300
In a food chain there is a hawk, an acorn, and a chipmunk, the chipmunk is a __________ , _______as well as a ____________.
What is consumer, prey and herbivore?
300
The movement of energy in a sequence Hint: It may be shown as a series of pictures, connected by arrows, to show the movement of energy.
What is a food chain?
300
A dormant, inactive state, where the normal body activities slow. The heart barely beats, breathing almost stops, and body temperatures drop to just above freezing. Hint: Animals eat a lot of food before this state occurs. Animals do not eat during this state, but live off of fat from stored food. A bear does this.
What is hibernation?
300
This factor affects the kinds of plants and animals in a ecosystem. Hint: Hot, cold, and rainy
What is climate?
400
The Tarantula (spider) and a snake are both _________, as well as ____________.
What is consumers, as well as carnivores?
400
True or False: A food chain is another way to say food web.
False. A food chain is a movement of energy in a sequence, and a food web is several food chains that overlap.
400
A behavior that an animal begins life with and that helps it meet its needs. Hint: A spider knowing how to spin a web
What is an instinct?
400
An instinctive behavior, that means to, "move from one region to another." This behavior can occur because of the seasons, to have babies, to find a new habitat, or in an attempt to find food.
What is migration?
400
A factor that can harm abiotic factors such as the air, water, and soil. Hint: Oil spill and smog What effect does this factor have on the environment?
What is pollution? It can contaminate the air, harming the animals that live there, it can contaminate the water or food supply, making the animals sick or even killing them, and it can sink into the soil, killing plants and hurting animals that live in or below the soil.
500
In a food chain with phytoplankton (producer), fish, shrimp, and seals, what is the top level consumer? What is the second level consumer? What is the first level consumer?
What is seal, fish, and shrimp? Seals arethe top level consumers. Fish are the second level consumer. Shrimp are first level consumers.
500
Only _________ percent of energy from food is stored in the body, the other _________ percent is used in everyday activities.
What is 10 percent and 90 percent? Only 10 percent of energy from food is stored in the body, the other 90 percent is used in everyday activities.
500
The role of an living thing in its habitat.
What is a niche?
500
Living things are labeled as this if their populations become so small, that can greatly reduce in number, or die out of exsistance.
What is threatened?
500
These human activities affect ecosystems: ____________ of habitats, __________, _________ of new plants and animals from other regions, and ____________ animals.
What is destruction of habitats, pollution, introduction of new plants and animals from other regions, and hunting animals?
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