Interdependency
Food Webs
Environmental Changes
Food Chains
Easy Peasy
100
Living and nonliving things are dependent on each other in order to do this.
Survive
100
Something that produces its own food from water and sunlight.
Producer
100
When there are too many of one kind of animal or plant in an ecosystem it is called this.
Overpopulation
100
This vocabulary word means a path of energy transfer from one organism to another.
Food Chain
100
The source of all energy on the Earth.
The Sun
200
A mouse that is burrowing in the soil is an interaction between -
What is an interaction between a living and nonliving thing in an ecosystem?
200
Where does the fox get its energy from?
The rabbits and mice?
200
All interacting members of a species in a single area-
What is population?
200
Create a food chain with the following organisms. worm, grass, wild dog, lion, sun, zebra, Hyena
sun->grass->zebra->wild dog->lion->hyena->worm
200
What do predators hunt?
Prey
300
Sunlight, air, water, rocks, and soil are all a part of the ecosystem that is ___________.
Nonliving
300
An organism that gets energy from eating plants or animals-
Consumer
300
If the population of frogs suddenly decreased in an area, what organism would likely increase in population?
Insects (mosquitos, flies)
300
A type of organism is missing from the food chain shown below.
_____ --> Grasshopper -->Frog --> Great Blue Herons
What type of organism is missing?
What is a Producer?
300
What is the main source of energy in this food web?
The Sun
400
A living community of organisms.
What is an ecosystem.
400
This breaks down decaying organisms for energy
(examples: earthworms and mushrooms) -
What is a decomposer?
400
Beavers building a dam on a river could cause an increase in the population of these.
Fish
400
In the food chain Grass → Mouse → Snake → Owl what would likely happen to the mice population if the snake population decrease?
The mice population would likely increase
400
What is the difference between food chains and food webs?
Food webs contain multiple food chains so they are much larger
500
A bear eating a fish in an ecosystem is an interaction between -
What is an interaction between two living components?
500
In a food web, what direction do the arrows point?
In the direction the energy travels (towards the organism that is using the energy)
500
Building one of these could prevent animals in an ecosystem from moving from place to place.
Road
500
A living community of organisms.
Ecosystem
500
What is the difference between scavengers and decomposers?
Scavengers eat dead flesh while decomposers feed on and break down dead organisms