Ecosystems/Food Webs
Human Affects
Habitats
Adaptations
Vocabulary
100
This is the source of all energy in a food web.
What is the sun?
100

Any harmful substance in the environment that changes an ecosystem. This includes trash, toxic waste, and harmful chemicals.

What is pollution?
100

The area, or location, that contains all of the living and nonliving things that meet an organisms' needs

What is a habitat?
100

It is a process by which species change over many generations through mutation.

What is adaptation?
100

An organism that eats other living things.

What is a consumer?
200
Name 2 nonliving things in an ecosystem.
What are air, soil, water, climate, rocks, wind, etc.?
200

 The greatest producer of pollution in the environment.

What are humans?
200
These are the things that are needed in a habitat.
What are food, water, space, air, and shelter?
200
This is a behavioral adaptation some birds do this to survive cold winters.
What is migration?
200
This organism would have the greatest impact on a food web if it disappeared.
What is a producer?
300

All the living and nonliving things in an area that interact with each other and include several habitats.

What is an ecosystem?
300
Name at least 2 animals that would be affected if humans filled in a pond to build a store.
What are fish, frog, birds, insects, snakes, reptiles etc.?
300
This habitat has short growing plants and arctic foxes.
What is tundra?
300
This is a structural adaptation that polar bears have to survive help them survive in the arctic.
What is their skin and fur?
300

Organisms which carry out the process of decomposition by breaking down dead or decaying organisms

What is a decomposer?
400

A model that shows many different feeding relationships among living things.

What is a food web?
400
Name two positive ways humans can help the environment.
What are recycling, reusing, planting trees, and conservation?
400
This habitat has fish, aquatic plants, and fresh water.
What is a pond or lake?
400
This is what happens to organisms that cannot adapt to their environment.
What is become extinct or die off?
400

The unique role that an organism has in its habitat.

What is niche?
500

The total number of members of one species within an ecosystem or habitat.

What is population?
500
Name 2 negative ways humans can change the environment.
What are logging, farming, polluting, hunting, building, etc.?
500

The highest number of any population that an ecosystem can support without affecting the number of the other populations in the ecosystem.

What is carrying capacity?
500
This is an behavioral adaptation that some animals make due to lack of food in the winter.
What is hibernation?
500
All living things in an ecosystem are called this.
What is biotic?
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