Ecosystems
Energy
Food Systems
Effecting the Environment
Fossils &Energy
100
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

What might finding a fish fossil in a desert tell paleontologist?

a.how plants have changed

b.how Earth's environment has changed

c.see how animals once got enough to eat

d.how animals once attracted mates.

How Earth's environment has changed

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 the 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

Which kind of fossil preserves the hard and soft parts of an animal?

a.A trace fossil

b.A cast fossil

c.A fossil from the tar pit

d.A fossil in amber

A fossil in amber

400

This is all the members of one species that live within an area of an ecosystem.

What is a population

400

This is what plants are called that can make their own food through a process called photosynthesis.

What is a producer

400

As resources in an environment change, what will happen to the other living things in that environment.

They migrate or die out

400

What is most likely to happen if most of the population of animals dies of disease?

a.the food web will stop

b.the decomposers will die

c.the food web will change

d.the producers will also get the disease.

The food web will change.

400

Which of the following is a producer?

a.deer

b.grass

c.hawk

d.dog

Grass

500

In which type of ecosystem is the ground beneath the surface is frozen all year?

a.Desert

b.Praire

c.Tundra

d.Wetland

Tundra

500
organisms that break down plant and animal waste are called______
What is decomposers
500

Which of these things are passed along in a food chain?

a.herbivores

b.ecosystems

c.air and sunshine

d.energy and matter

Energy and matter

500
Name one way humans hurt he environment.
What is many answers
500

Which is not a trace fossil?

a.A preserved skull

b.A preserved track

c.A preserved nest

d.A preserved eggshell

A preserved skull

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