This refers to all the living and nonliving things in an environment.
What is an ecosystem
100
This is an animal that only eats meat.
What is carnivore
100
the process of transferring energy from one organism to another by eating and being eaten.
What is a food chain?
100
This occurs when two or more living things need the same resources in order to survive.
What is competition?
100
a person who studies fossils
What is a paleontologist?
200
Name 3 different types of ecosystems
What is wetland, tundra, desert, grassland, rain forest
200
This is an animal that only eats plants
What is herbivore
200
Every food chain starts with this.
What is the sun?
200
Name one way a plant would cause change to an environment.
What is block sunlight to other plants; push other plants out of the area; ect.
200
fossil found deeper in the ground is _____________ than one found closer to the surface.
What is older
300
the area or place where an organism lives is its ________
What is habitat
300
This is an animal that eats both meat and plants.
What is an omnivore
300
This is a system of overlapping food chains in which te flow of energy branches out in many directions.
What is food web?
300
Name one way a beaver would change an environment.
What is cut down trees; block a waterway
300
There are four kinds of fossils, name at least 3.
What is trace, body, cast, and mold?
400
this is all the members of one speciesthat live within an area of an ecosystem.
What is a population
400
This is what plants are called that can make their own food.
What is a producer
400
As resources in an environment change, what will happen to the other living things in that environment.
What is move or die out?
400
Are environmental changes always bad?　Explain a time when a change would be helpful to the environment.
What is Creating birdhouses, planting grass to help with erosion.
400
Sand, mud and other ___________ settle on top of an animals remains in the process of a fossil being made.
What is sediments
500
How would a grassland change if very little rain fell for a long period of time?
What is living things would die or become harder to find or move to a new place.
500
organisms that break down plant and animal waste are called______
What is decomposers
500
Describe the difference between a food web and a food chain.
What is a food chain is only one example of how plants and animals are consumed. A food web shows many different ways that plants and animals consume and can be consumed.
500
Name one way humans hurt he environment.
What is many answers
500
_______ and ________ are a kind of fossil that we usually refer to as fossil fuels.