Ecosystems
Ecosystems 2
Vocab
Vocab 2
Vocab3/Ecosystems
100
A prairie provides resources needed to support which organism.
What is grass?
100
Best explanation for a decrease in a population of wolves.
What is the amount of food decreases?
100
Organism that cannot make its own food
What is consumer?
100
the struggle among organisms for the same limited resources
What is competition?
100
any animal that is hunted by others for food
What is prey?
200
An event that would cause an ecosystem to change quickly.
What is an earthquake?
200
This adaptation helps eagles find food.
What is eyes face forward?
200
organism that gets its energy by breaking down wastes and dead organisms
What is decomposer?
200
a series of steps which energy moves from one type of living thing to another
What is food chain?
200
organism that makes its own food for energy
What is producer?
300
A statement that is true about succession.
What is it follows change?
300
Describes both a food chain and a food web.
What is both begin with a producer?
300
any substance that damages the environment
What is pollution?
300
a diagram that combines many food chains into one picture
What is food web?
300
a consumer that hunts and eats another animal
What is predator?
400
Nonnative animal populations can grow rapidly in a new ecosystem due to.
What is predators in the ecosystem are not used to hunting them?
400
Find animals with thick fur coats.
What is tundra?
400
the process in which plants make sugar called glucose
What is photosynthesis?
400
an attempt to preserve or protect an environment from harmful changes
What is conservation?
400
Change in a gene called
What is a mutation?
500
grass, deer, coyote
What is a food chain that most likely will be found on a prairie?
500
The shortest food chains consist of
What is a producer and a decomposer?
500
all of the conditions surrounding an organism
What is environment?
500
the process by which cells break down sugar to release energy
What is cellular respiration?
500
A robin builds a nest out of sticks and dry grass.
What is a behavioral adaptation?
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