Impacts
Definitions
Food Chains
Bonus (Hard Stuff!)
100
It makes one group in the food chain more powerful and populated.
What is the effect of overpopulation?
100
When there are more individuals than resources available.
What is overpopulation?
100
A herbivore near the bottom of the food chain.
What is a primary consumer?
100
A plant eater.
What is an herbivore?
200
All of the groups that relied on the terminated group are in jeopardy.
What is the effect of extinction?
200
A coming to an end or dying out.
What is extinction?
200
A predator that eats the primary consumers.
What is a secondary consumer?
200
An organism that obtains nutrients from the blood or flesh of an animal.
What is a carnivore?
300
When a human population "takes over" an ecosystem.
What is the effect of human intervention?
300
A hierarchical series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food.
What is food chain?
300
The top predator in a food chain.
What is a tertiary consumer?
300
The absolute top consumer.
What is a quaternary consumer?
400
When extreme forecast or natural disasters destroy the habitat.
What is the effect of weather?
400
When any sort of human life interferes with other ecosystems.
What is human intervention?
400
The beginning energy source and foundation of a food chain.
What is a producer?
400
Each level in a food chain.
What is a trophic level
500
When one group in the food chain seasonally moves out of the food chain and into another, temporarily.
What is the effect of migration?
500
Seasonal movement of animals from one region to another.
What is migration?
500
It decomposes and restarts the food chain.
What is a decomposer?
500
A network of interrelated food chains in a given area.
What is a food web?
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