Vocabulary
What do we call an organism that makes its own food?
What is a producer?
What shows just one path of energy flow?
What is a food chain?
This is the largest ecosystem on Earth, covering about 70% of the planet's surface.
What is the ocean?
What do decomposers do?
What is break down dead organisms and recycle nutrients?
What happens to predators if prey disappears?
What is predator populations will decrease?
An organism that eats only plants is called a…?
What is a herbivore?
What shows multiple feeding relationships in an ecosystem?
What is a food web?
This rainforest, known as the "lungs of the Earth," produces around 20% of the world’s oxygen.
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
Give an example of a decomposer.
What is fungus or bacteria?
What happens to plants if herbivores increase too much?
What is plants could be overgrazed?
What do we call the role or position an organism has in a food chain?
What is a trophic level?
In a food chain, what do arrows represent?
What is the flow of energy?
Despite being cold and dry, this ecosystem is considered a desert.
What is the Arctic (or Antarctic) tundra?
Why are decomposers essential in a food web?
What is they return nutrients to the soil for producers?
What would happen if decomposers were removed from a food web?
What is nutrients wouldn’t recycle and waste would build up?
Organisms that eat both plants and animals are called…?
What is an omnivore?
If a hawk eats a snake that ate a frog, what trophic level is the hawk?
What is a tertiary consumer?
This underwater ecosystem, often called the “rainforest of the sea,” supports about 25% of all marine life.
What is a coral reef?
What does high biodiversity do for an ecosystem?
What is make it more stable and resilient?
Why would a food web be more stable than a food chain?
What is it offers more feeding options if one species is lost?
The variety of living organisms in an area is known as…?
What is biodiversity?
What would likely happen if all the primary consumers disappeared?
What is producers would overpopulate and higher consumers would decline?
Why are energy pyramids usually only 4–5 levels tall?
What is because there’s not enough energy to support more levels?
How could low biodiversity affect a food web?
What is it could collapse more easily if one species is removed?
How does removing a top predator cause a trophic cascade?
What is prey overpopulate, lower levels get over-consumed, and the system becomes unbalanced?