Terrestrial
Environment
Food Webs
Extinction
Misc.
100
Terrarium
What is a mini-garden in an enclosed container?
100
Everything that surrounds and influences an organism.
What is environment?
100
An organism that can make its own food.
What is a producer?
100
This word describes an organism that no longer exists.
What is extinct?
100
The two main ingredients for life.
What is water and the sun
200
An ecosystem on or in the ground.
What is a terrestrial environment?
200
One part of the environment--it can be living (plants and animals) or nonliving (water, light, chemicals).
What is an environmental factor?
200
An organism that cannot make its own food, so it must eat other organisms.
What is a consumer?
200
An organism that is exposed to danger and is threatened with extinction.
What is an endangered species?
200
Darkling beetles prefer what kind of environment?
What is dry?
300
When a seed sprouts, or starts to grow and develop.
What is to germinate?
300
Any living thing, including all plants and animals.
What is an organism?
300
What is the source of energy which helps producers make their own food?
What is the sun?
300
One way the extinction of one species can disrupt an entire food web.
What is: species depend on each other for food, so they would lose a food source, OR, species depend on each other for population control.
300
Name two nonliving factors in the butterfly garden (a terrestrial environment).
What is rock, soil, fallen leaf, sunlight, etc. (teacher will verify other possible answers).
400
An organism that breaks down plant and animal material into simple chemicals, which can be reused in the ecosystem.
What is a decomposer?
400
A system of living things, all the nonliving things that surround it, and the relationships between them.
What is an ecosystem?
400
An animal that eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
400
The preserved remains or imprints left behind by organisms that have died.
What is a fossil?
400
An animal that eats other animals.
What is a carnivore?
500
Producers
What role do plants play in the food web of a terrestrial ecosystem?
500
The condition of environmental factors that is favorable to growth, survival and reproduction of an organism.
What is optimum environment?
500
Multiple choice: This makes up the largest part of every food web. a. consumers b. producers c. decomposers
What are producers.
500
Name one event that could cause "extinctions" in our classroom ecosystems (terrarium or fish tank).
What is a flood, a drought, pollution, habitat destruction (other possible answers to be verified by teacher.)
500
Name two physical characteristics that goldfish have to help them survive and grow in an aquatic environment.
What is gills, fins, small sleek bodies, scales, coloration (teacher will verify other possible answers.)
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