We are what we eat
Chain Gang
In the Hood
Break it down
You're going to pay
100
This category of organisms depend on other organisms for food.
What is a consumer?
100
This is the direction an arrow would point in a food chain that includes a rabbit and a strawberry plant.
What is away from the plant and toward the rabbit ?
100
Trees, bacteria, ferns, and squirrels that live together in the same ecosystem make up one of these.
What is a community?
100
This is the role an organism plays in its ecosystem.
What is a niche?
100
These are living and non-living things that control how large a population will get in its ecosystem.
What are limiting factors?
200
This type of organism creates its own energy using sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide.
What is a producer?
200
This type of organism breaks down dead organisms into nutrients that can be used again by plants.
What is a decomposer?
200
This is the number of organisms that a habitat can sustain.
What is its carrying capacity?
200
This is a word that describes all the members of a particular species that live in the same place at the same time.
What is a population?
200
This is what will happen if there are too many primary consumers in an ecosystem.
What is a drop in the producer population?
300
This level of consumer only eats producers.
What is a primary consumer?
300
This is what occurs when two or more organisms share the same food source.
What is competition?
300
This type of organism feeds off another, making the host organism sick or weak.
What a parasite?
300
This part of the ecosystem is alive.
What is a biotic factor?
300
This is what will happen if you introduce a new predator to an ecosystem.
What is a drop in the prey population?
400
These things make up an ecosystem
What are living and non-living things that interact?
400
This is what the arrows in a food chain or web represent.
What is the movement of energy from one organism to another?
400
This is the location where an organism lives and performs its role.
What is its habitat?
400
This part of an ecosystem is not alive.
What is an abiotic factor?
400
These are three negative consequences of zebra mussels invading the rivers and lakes of the USA.
What are: crowding out native species; increased water clarity and reduced O2; disruption of the food web?
500
This type of consumer eats other consumers that eat only producers
What is a secondary consumer?
500
This model shows the amount of energy at each level in the feeding order.
What is an energy pyramid?
500
This is the relationship between owls and mice.
What is predator-prey?
500
This word describes all the populations living in an ecosystem.
What is a community?
500
These are three negative consequences of introducing Nile Perch into Lake Victoria.
What is loss of biodiversity; change in fishing customs; and species extinction?
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