Levels of Organization
What is the smallest "level" in an environment?
Individual
All food chains begin with
The sun
What a predator may hunt and eat for food
Prey
More births than deaths usually causes a population to do this.
Increase
A population grows too large and it may damage the environment or ecosystem
Overpopulation
Groups or individuals of the same species are
Population
The organism that eats plants is called
Herbivore
A realistic number of individuals that live in a population
Carrying Capacity
A limiting factor that organisms compete for in crowded ecosystems
An organism may disappear forever
Extinction
All the different populations in an area
Community
The organism that eats plants and animals is called
Omnivore
The reason(s) why populations cannot grow to their max number
Limiting Factors
If insects disappear, predict one effect on birds in a food web
Their population will decrease
A population at risk of extinction
Endangered
The interaction of living and nonliving things in the same area
Ecosystem
The organism that eats only meat is called
Carnivore
When two organisms try to use the same resource, like food or shelter, this could be a resulting action
Competition/Compete
Explain how removing all predators could affect an ecosystem
Prey populations would increase too much and resources could run out
A species at risk but not yet endangered
Threatened
The sum of all living things on Earth
Biosphere
The top of the chain
Apex predator
Name at least three limiting factors
(Mr. Grimmer will accept these)
A species reproduces quickly, but its population stays stable because resources are limited. Explain why
The population reached carrying capacity due to limiting factors
In a meadow ecosystem, the rabbit population suddenly drops after a disease spreads through the rabbits. Predict two effects this change could have on other populations in the ecosystem, and explain why those changes would happen
(Mr. Grimmer will Accept this answer on the spot)