Found in areas where the temperature of the air is mild and there is plenty of rainfall.
What is a forest ecosystem?
100
A marine ecosystem that is found in shallow parts of the ocean where it is very warm and sunny.
What is a coral reef ecosystem?
100
This organism supplies energy for the consumers in the ecosystem.
What is a producer?
100
This is an animal that eats both plants and other animals. Most of you are one of these!
What is an omnivore?
100
An unwanted change (often damaging) in the environment. Factories and cars cause this!
What is pollution?
200
Contains trees that lose their leaves each fall. Have animals like bears, rabbits, deer, and snakes. Plants such as ferns and mosses also grow.
What is a temperate deciduous ecosystem?
200
A marine ecosystem where bodies of water found in areas where freshwater from rivers and streams and salt water from the ocean meet. (Shrimp, crabs, clams, reeds, grasses and turtles live here).
What are estuaries?
200
Organisms such as fungi, worms, and bacteria get energy by breaking down nutrients in dead organisms.
What is a decomposer?
200
This is the animal that is eating other animals. (Not a carnivore!)
What is a predator?
200
The clearing of forest lands.
What is deforestation?
300
This biome features very little rain. There is also little vegetation.
What is a desert?
300
A marine ecosystem where there is fresh water. Animals include algae, cattails, snails, insects, frogs, and fish.
What is a lake or pond?
300
An organism that gets its food from eating other living things, in order to have enough energy to survive or reproduce. You are one of these!
What is a consumer?
300
This is the animal that is being eaten. EEEK! RUN!
What is prey?
300
To move from one place to another, usually with the change of seasons
What is migration?
400
Found in much warmer areas and have plenty of rainfall. Animals include monkeys, reptiles, parrots, and toucans.
What is a tropical rainforest?
400
This biome is located in the northern part of the northern hemisphere. It has a cold climate and lots of coniferous trees.
What is the taiga?
400
A flower is this type of organism.
What is a producer?
400
This is the name of a group of organisms of the same species living in the same place.
What is a population?
400
This animal is likely next in the following food chain in the African savannah:
grass : antelope : _______
What is a lion?
500
Found in warm and temperate area that receives rainfall. They are usually flat or having rollng hills. They are sometimes called prairies, savannahs, plains, and pampas. Animals that live there include: prairie dogs, mice and bison.
What is a grassland?
500
Characteristics of this ecosystem include very cold temperatures, a short growth season, and permafrost.
What is the tundra?
500
An earthworm eating dead leaves is an example of this type of organism.
What is a decomposer?
500
An organism that must live on or inside another organism (a host) in order to get energy.
What is a parasite?
500
Using fertilizer on crops damages ecosystem in this way.
What is the growth of too many water plants downstream?