Vocabulary
5 Levels of Env. Org
The Energy Connection
Relationships
Miscellaneous
100
The part of the environment that consists of nonliving factors is known as
What is "abiotic"?
100
Name the five levels of environmental organization.
What is Organism, Population, Community, Ecosystem, and Biosphere?
100
Organisms that use sunlight directly to make food are called this.
What are "producers" (plants would also be acceptable)?
100
This triangular diagram shows an ecosystem's loss of energy.
What is an energy pyramid?
100
Name an example of a decomposer.
What is a mushroom (fungi) or a bacterium?
200
The study of the interactions of organisms with one another and with their environment is this.
What is Ecology?
200
This level of environmental organization consists of all of the populations of species that live and interact in an area.
What is Community?
200
Consumers eat other organisms and are organized into three categories. Name all three categories (clue: the name depends on what they eat).
What is herbivore, carnivore, and omnivore?
200
Are consumers found on the top or the bottom of an energy pyramid?
What is the top?
200
Describe a scavenger.
What is a consumer (omnivore) that eats dead plants and animals?
300
A group of individuals of the same species that live together are known as this.
What is a population?
300
This level of environmental organism is made up of a community of organisms and the abiotic environment of the community.
What is Ecosystem?
300
Organisms that get energy by breaking down dead organisms are called this.
What are "decomposers"?
300
Herbivores, carnivores, and scavengers are all examples of these.
What are consumers?
300
A Seaside sparrow and a Heron live in the same salt-marsh community. Are they part of the same population? Yes or No.
What is no. They are different species so they cannot be part of the same population.
400
This consists of all of the populations of species that live and interact in an area.
What is a community?
400
This level of environmental organization is made up of a group of species that live together in the same area.
What is population?
400
Give a real life example for each type of consumer.
Many answers are possible. Must have examples for herbivore, carnivore, and omnivore. Possible answers: bunny (herbivore), tiger (carnivore), human (omnivore).
400
Describe how producers, consumers, and decomposers are linked in a food chain.
Multiple possible answers. Basic answer could be: consumers eat producers. When consumers die, decomposers eat them.
400
All of the organisms that live together and interact with one another make up the _______ part of the environment.
What is the "biotic" part of the environment?
500
This is the name of the part of the Earth where life exists.
What is the "biosphere"?
500
This level of environmental organization is made up of one member of a species.
What is Organism?
500
Explain the difference between a food chain and a food web.
What is a food chain is a diagram that shows how energy in food flows from one organism to another. A food web is a diagram that shows the feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem. (the web is more complicated)
500
A) Describe what would happen if a species disappeared from an ecosystem. B) Describe what would happen if a new species were introduced to an ecosystem.
Multiple possible answers. Example: If wolves disappeared from an area, all the consumers that the wolves would normally eat would still live. They would require more producers (like grass). The grass might run out from over grazing and those species would start to disappear, too.
500
Give two examples of how abiotic factors can affect an ecosystem.
Multiple answers possible. Example: What is the temperature could change and drive some organisms away? (other factors are: water changes, soil, light)
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