Vocabulary
Food Chain Environmental Changes
Ecosystem
Food Chain
miscellaneous
100
continuing life through rough conditions
What is survival
100
In a complete sentence, describe how the changes will affect the organisms in the food chain: Over harvesting depletes much of the crab population. Duckweed ---> Crabs ---> Herons
What is the duckweed grows too thick and blocks sunlight in the water. The herons move away because there is nothing to eat.
100
Would tearing down trees to build a neighborhood cause an ecosystem to change?
What is yes
100
Draw an example of a food chain with these plants or animals: fish,plankton, whales
What is plankton --->fish--->whales
100
makes its own food
What is producer
200
to grow vigorously, to make steady progress, to prosper
What is thrive
200
In a complete sentence, describe how the changes will affect the organisms in the food chain: Hunters wipe out most of the otter population. Sea Weed ---> Sea Urchins ---> Otters
What is the sea urchins eat all of the seaweed and there is not enough for other animals in the ocean. Pretty soon the sea weed starts to die off because the urchins are eating it all. All the animals will eventually go away to search for other food.
200
Would an animal becoming extinct change an ecosystem?
What is yes
200
Draw an example of a food chain using these plants or animals: owl, grain, field mouse
What is grain ---> field mouse ---> owl
200
usually a bacteria or fungus, this organism breaks dead plants and animals
What is decomposer
300
the path of energy from one living thing to another in an ecosystem
What is food chain
300
In a complete sentence, describe how the changes will affect the organisms in the food chain: A lawn care company sprays poisonous fertilizer on the grass. Grass ---> Grasshoppers ---> Frogs ---> Snakes
What is the grasshoppers will get sick and die from eating the poisoned grass. Then the frogs will not have any food and they will die or move away. Finally, the snakes will not have any food without the frogs.
300
What might cause an ecosystem to change?
300
Draw an example of a food chain using these plants or animals: shrew, hawk, grasshopper
What is grasshopper ---> shrew---> hawk
300
Is a plant a producer, consumer, or decomposer?
What is producer
400
the body of inhabitants of a place
What is population
400
What would happen if frogs stopped eating insects.
What is there would be an over population of insects.
400
What might cause an ecosystem to change?
400
How does the sun affect every food chain?
What is the flow of energy always begins with the sun.
400
Is a lion a producer, consumer or decomposer?
What is consumer
500
feeds on plants or other animals
What is consumer
500
Name an environmental change that would affect this food chain: grass--->cow--->humans
500
What might cause an ecosystem to change?
500
What would happen if there was not a sun.
What is there would not be any energy. Food chains would be destroyed.
500
Is fungus a producer, consumer, or decomposer?
What is decomposer.
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