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

What 3 cycles ensured a highly functioning ecosystem?

Water, carbon, and nitrogen.

100

Animals that feed on dead animals and other plants and put nutrients back into the soil.

What is Detritivore?

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

A set of ecosystems is called a__________.

A Biome

200

What do the arrows in a food web illustrate?

The flow of energy

200

This species is especially important in maintaining balance in a ecosystem

What is a keystone species

300

An animal that eats or consumes other animals is called...

What is Consumer?

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 three forms of carbon that we remove from the ground?

oil, gas, coal and (peat)

300
In the ocean, what is a producer?
Kelp, plankton.
400

A deer is an animal that just eats plants (producers) is called:

What is an 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

What is is called when BOTH organisms benefit in an ecosystem?

Mutualism
500

What is an ecosystem?

A biological community including all the interactions between biotic and abiotic things in an environment.

500

How much energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next?

10%

500

How is Nitrogen "fixed" in an ecosystem? 

Bacteria found in the ground or on nodules of plant roots.

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