Ecosystems and Biomes 1
Ecosystems and
Biome 2
Populations and Communities 1
Populations and Communities 2
Everything Else
100
Living organisms that make their own food are called what?
Producers
100
Living organisms that eat other living organisms are called what?
Consumers
100
An ____________ obtains food, water, shelter and other things it needs to live, grow, and reproduce from its environment.
Organism
100
Organisms that feed on dead organisms are called what?
Scavengers
100
Organisms that break down and return raw materials to earth are called what?
Decomposers
200
Zebra and gazelle are examples of what type of specific organism?
Herbivore
200
A rose bush being eaten by a grasshopper that gets eaten by a red robin is an example of what?
Food chain
200
A place where an organism lives and that provides the things the organism needs is called it's what?
habitat
200
A lion is apart of which specific group of organisms?
Carnivores
200
Many different interlocking food chains are called a what?
Food web
300
Living parts of a habitat or called?
biotic factors
300
All the different poplutions that live together in an area make up a what?
community
300
A_________includes all members of one species in a particular area?
population
300
An ecosystem includes ___________ and ___________ things that interact in a particular area.
living and non-living
300
Non-Living parts of a habitat are called?
abiotic factors
400
List three biotic factors in a swampland ecosystem.
Possible answers include frogs, cattail, lizards, fish, birds, etc...
400
Give and example of a food chain using 5 different organisms
Possible answer leaf, grasshopper, pigeon, snake, Eagle
400
Producers make their own food through what proccess?
Photosynthesis
400
Bears, raccoons, monkeys are examples of what specific type of organism?
omnivores
400
List three abiotic factors in a swampland ecosyetem
Possible answers include: soil, air, water, trash, etc...
500
A person that studies how living things interact with each other and with their environment is called a what?
Ecologist
500
The further up you travel on an energy pyramid the ________ the energy output.
Lower
500
What does a energy pyramid show?
A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in another in a food web.
500
Explain what an Energy pyramid might look like using at least four different organisms
Possible answer: Wheat on the bottom (base level), then mice (2nd level), lizard (3rd level), Owl (4th level)
500
What does most energy enter ecosystems as?
Sunlight
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