Animals that Eat
Food Chains
Ecosystems
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Ecosystem Roles
100
An animal that hunts, kills and eats another animal is called this?
What is a PREDATOR.
100
A food chain always begins with a ____________
What is a producer?
100

In every ecosystem, it must have both...

Living and nonliving things

100
Plants that feed on dead animals and other plants and put nutrients back into the soil.
What is DECOMPOSER?
100
The process that plants use to make food.
What is photosynthesis?
200
This is the word for the animal that gets hunted, killed and eaten...
What is PREY?
200
Where a producer gets its energy.
What is from the sun?
200

In the gerbil ecosystem, name three abiotic factors

Water, cardboard, fluff

200
In the mountain caribou ecosystem, name one human activity that impacts the caribou, and explain why.
Hunting, logging, snowmobiling, etc.
200
The difference between a primary and a secondary consumer.
A primary consumer is a herbivore (ex. a deer), and a secondary consumer eats the herbivores (ex. a cougar).
300
An animal that eats or consumes other animals is called...
What is Carnivore?
300
Make a food chain with the following: hawk, grass, snake, mouse
What is grass, mouse, snake, hawk
300
Name 3 stages in the water cycle.
What is evaporation, condensation, precipitation.
300
What are the three levels of every food chain?
What is the producer, decomposer, and consumer?
300
In the ocean, what is a producer?
Kelp, plankton.
400
A deer is an animal that just eats plants (producers) is called: A) Spicavore B) Migrate C) Herbivore D) Birdavore
What is C, Herbivore?
400
Many food chains joined together to show all energy transfers within an ecosystem.
What is a food web.
400
Name 3 abiotic components of a forest ecosystem.
Soil, water, air.
400
What role do mushrooms play in food chains?
Decomposers.
400
What is a top predator? Give an example.
At the top of a food chain, the predator that has no enemies. (ex. polar bear)
500
An animal that eats both plants and meat? A bear is considered this?
What is an Omnivore?
500
Explain how populations of predators and prey follow each other. Use rabbits and foxes to explain.
When there is a lot of food for rabbits, then rabbit population will increase. Fox population will increase until they haven eaten most of the rabbits. Then there won't be enough food for the foxes, and their numbers will decrease.
500
What is an ecosystem?
A biological community including all the interactions between living and non-living things in an environment.
500

In an forest ecosystem, if you remove the main producer what happens and explain your answer

It would cause the primary consumer to decrease and create a domino affect disrupting the rest of the food web

500
Can the earth be considered an ecosystem? Why or why not?
Yes! Water cycles around the earth, so do gasses and particles like pollution in our atmosphere. Animals migrate huge distances, as do people.
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