Grass that gains energy from the sun is an example of a _________.
What is Producer?
100
Vultures and hyenas
What are scavengers?
100
Dry with little rainfall, receives less than 25 centimeters of rain per year. Can be cold or hot. Sandy soil. Found all over the world.
What is desert?
100
Of the following, which is not a freshwater ecosystem?
Lake
Coral Reef
Pond
Swamp
What is coral reef?
200
The smallest unit of ecological organization is…
What is an organism?
200
Animals that eat a variety of meats, fruits and vegetables are…
What are omnivores?
200
The organism that would consume a hawk that has died and returns the nutrient to the earth.
What is a decomposer?
200
Mountains with cold, treeless, frozen landscapes.
What is alpine tundra?
200
An example of an abiotic element in an ecosystem.
What is...
water - clouds, rain, mist...
air - wind
sun - light, temperature
soil - rocks
?
300
The organizational term for all the gray wolves in a forest?
What is a population?
300
The % of the available energy is passed to the next consumer.
What is 10%?
300
The consumer level of an eagle that eats a mouse that eats some berries.
What is a second order consumer?
300
Organisms include Phytoplankton, small fish, dragonflies, ducks, turtles, snakes, crustaceans, alligators, clams, and snails. Two areas
What are ponds and lakes?
300
Describes the mammals, fish, birds, and plants as well as the sun, soil, air and water in an environment.
What is an ecosystem?
400
The level of organization scientists are studying if they look at the egrets, herons, marsh crabs, and Spartina grass, but not the water or the rocks in the salt marsh.
What is a community?
400
The level with the most available energy.
What is the producer level?
400
What, grass is eaten by a prairie dog and the prairie dog is eaten by a coyote, is an example of
What is a food chain?
400
These regions cover about 3/4 of the Earth. Algae supply 90% of the world's oxygen and take in just as much carbon dioxide.
What is marine biomes?
400
This would likely happen to a predator within one year if its' prey disappeared from the ecosystem.
What is they would decrease in numbers/starve?
500
The five levels of organization in the environment in order from smallest to largest.
What are organism, population community, ecosystem, and biosphere.
500
The sun gives a producer 2375 units of energy. The consumer level that receives 2.375 units of energy.
What is the 3rd order consumer?
500
A diagram that shows all the organisms and levels of consumers in an ecosystem.