the interaction between organisms and the environment.
100
Which Biome do we, in North Carolina, live in?
What is Deciduous Forest!
100
What IS a food chain and a food web (explain the difference between the two).
A food chain is "who eats who" in a direct line. A food web is a complex network of the food chains in an ecosystem.
100
What is the difference between abiotic and biotic factors?
Biotic means "living" such as people, animals, & plants. Abiotic means "nonliving" such as sunlight, soil, rain, rocks.
100
What are the four major steps in the water cycle?
Evaporation, condensation, precipitation, run-off
200
How many ecosystems are there?
What is MILLIONS and BILLIONS!!!!!!
200
Which Biome do penguins live in?
What is Tundra.
200
Name 4 producers.
What is sunflower, oak tree, maple tree/leaf, shrub, etc.
200
Explain what symbiosis means.
"A relationship between two organisms in a community."
200
Give a real world example of evaporation.
When you leave a glass of water outside on a hot day and come back to less water in the glass. Cooking causing water to evaporate. The sun causes water on the earth's surface to evaporate.
300
What do you call an organism who eats both meat and plants?
What is Omnivore!
300
In which Biome are there a lot of trees that are Evergreens?
What is Taiga.
300
What are the 4 main levels of the food chain?
What is decomposer, carnivore, herbivore, producers
300
Explain what parasitism means.
When a relationship between 2 organisms benefits one, but harms the other.
300
Offer a real world example of condensation.
The moisture around a glass of ice cold water, the mirror after a steamy hot shower, frost, or dew.
400
What do you call an organism that only eats meat?
What is Carnivore!
400
Name all 6 major land Biomes:
What is: Deciduous Forest, Tundra, Taiga, Rainforest, Desert, Grassland (Savanna)
400
Explain how the energy passes through the levels of the energy pyramid.
It all begins with the sun!!!!!! The energy of the sun goes into plants. Herbivores eat the plants and absorb its energy. Carnivore eat herbivores, and absorb less energy from the producers and herbivores. Each time you move up a level in the pyramid, you absorb less energy from the level below it.
400
Explain what commensalism means.
A relationship in which one organism benefits and the other organism is unharmed.
400
What type of damage can run off cause to an area.
It can erode the soil and take away good nutrients, cause deep trenches, flood, collapse from moisture in soil.
500
Explain the difference between a second and third level consumer.
A second level consumer eats plants (producers). A third level consumer eats plants AND other consumers!
500
Explain why there are only small shrubs, lichen, and moss in the Tundra.
What is: the permafrost keeps the soil frozen so roots for trees cannot grow. Low lying shrubs hold in heat, close to the ground.
500
With your team, decide who will play the part of:
grasshopper, caterpillar, tree, squirrel, and dog. Act out the possible food chain with these 5 roles.
Demonstration
500
Explain mutualsim.
A relationship between two organisms that benefits BOTH organisms.
500
Explain why and how water vapor changes to precipitation.
When cloud accumulate so much water vapor, the cloud gets heavy. The water cools which condensates the gas form into liquid water form, which falls to the earth as precipitation.