Ecosystems
Cycles
Energy Flow
Food Chain
Scenarios
100
What is ecology?
The study of how organisms interact with their environment.
100
What is a cycle?
A series of events that happen over and over again.
100
What is a producer?
An organism that gets food from the sun.
100
What is a food chain?
A feeding relationship between a producer and a single chain of consumers in an ecosystem.
100
Cattails get eaten by a caterpillar, caterpillars get eaten by a frog, and frogs get eaten by a heron. What is the secondary consumer?
Frog
200
What is an ecosystem?
A particular environment and all the living things that are supported by it.
200
How have humans caused the carbon cycle to become unbalanced?
Burning of fossil fuels have made more CO2 in the air, also more cattle.
200
What is a consumer?
An organism that gets their energy by eating other organisms.
200
What is a food web?
A model of the feeding relationships between many different consumers and producers in an ecosystem.
200
Cattails get eaten by a caterpillar, caterpillars get eaten by a frog, and frogs get eaten by a heron. What is the producer?
Cattails
300
What is a biotic factor?
living thing
300
Where does the nitrogen come from in the nitrogen cycle?
death, bacteria, plants, lightning
300
What is a decomposer?
Break down dead plants and animal matter.
300
What is an energy pyramid?
A model that shows the amount of energy available at each feeding level of an ecosystem.
300
Cattails get eaten by a caterpillar, caterpillars get eaten by a frog, and frogs get eaten by a heron. What is the tertiary consumer?
Heron
400
What is a abiotic factor?
Non living things
400
What are the five parts of the water cycle?
Precipitation, evaporation, condensation, transpiration, respiration
400
What is a scavenger?
An organism that eats dead animals.
400
What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?
Chain is a single line of consumers, web is many that eat many things.
400
Cattails get eaten by a caterpillar, caterpillars get eaten by a frog, and frogs get eaten by a heron. What is the primary consumer?
caterpillar
500
Name the four abiotic factors your book talks about.
Temperature, light, soil, and water
500
Explain what each part in the water cycle does.
evaporation, condensation, transpiration, respiration, precipitation
500
Explain the difference between a primary, secondary, and tertiary consumer.
primary eat producers, secondary eat primary, and tertiary eat secondary.
500
What kind of group would be at the top of the food web? What kind of group would be at the bottom of the food web?
Top tertiary or secondary consumers, bottom producers
500
Cattails get eaten by a caterpillar, caterpillars get eaten by a frog, and frogs get eaten by a heron. What is the decomposer?
Bacteria and fungi
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