Food Chains & Webs
Adaptations
Changes in Ecosystems
Organisms
Pot Luck
100
Name an example of a producer.
What is a plant, tree, flower, etc.
100
Is a frogs muscular legs for jumping a structural or behaviorial adaptation?
What is a structural adaptation.
100
True or False Ecosystems are always changing.
What is TRUE.
100
How are producers different from all consumers?
What is producers make their own food.
100
Where does all of the energy in our solar system come from?
What is the sun.
200
What is the job of the decomposers?
What is they break down dead plants and animals and return nutrients back into the soil.
200
What is an example of a behavioral adaptation?
What is migration, hibernation, and any learned behavior (hunting).
200
Give an example of a natural disaster that could change, or destroy an ecosystem.
What is flood, earthquake, volcano, etc.
200
What is a example of a predator and its prey? Name the predator and prey.
What is for example, fox (pedator) and rabbit (prey).
200
What is the largest section of the energy pyramid?
What is the producers?
300
What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?
What is a food web is more than one food chain overlapping. It shows more than one energy transfer per organism.
300
Animals develop adaptations for this purpose. The most important goal of all living things.
What is survival.
300
Explain what it means for an ecosystem to be balanced.
What is there are just the right amount of predator/prey relationships or populations or organisms for all organisms to sustain life and continue to thrive.
300
When the population of herbivores in an ecosystem decreases, what happens to the producers? What happens to the carnivores?
What is producers increase and carnivores decrease.
300
What are the 3 types of pollution?
What is air, water, and noise.
400
Construct a food chain using a snake, grass, hawk, mouse, and grasshopper. (Make sure to use arrows)
What is } grass } grasshopper } mouse } snake } hawk
400
Why do polar bears have small ears and jack rabbits have large ears?
What is so they can live in their climates. The larger the ears, the more heat is released.
400
A forest fire completely wipes out an ecosystem. What is it called when the ecosystem gradually rebuilds itself?
What is succession?
400
What is another name for 3rd level consumers/carnivores?
What are tertiary consumers.
400
Name a way that pesticides can be beneficial and a way they can be harmful.
What is they kill insects that can be harmful to crops and they can pollute the water supply.
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