Pond Plants and Animals
Energy Pyramids
Scientific Method
Pond Vocabulary
Food Chains
100
A brown plant with a thin stem that lives in a marsh or along the side of a pond
What is a cattail
100
All energy in a food chain comes from me
What is the sun
100
A good guess that represents what you think will happen in an experiment
What is a hypothesis
100
How ponds change over time from young to old
What is succession
100
A plant eater
What is an herbivore
200
A mammal that often comes to a pond to wash its food in water. It wears a 'mask' on its face.
What is a raccoon
200
The TOP level of the food chain, there are the fewest of me
What is a tertiary consumer
200
Something you watch to describe a process
What is an observation
200
The scientific name for the study of ponds and lakes
What is limnology
200
A meat eater
What is a carnivore
300
An insect nymph, I move sideways as if I am dancing
What is a damselfly nymph
300
I am the biggest part of an energy pyramid in terms of the number of me.
What is a producer
300
When you actually "do" or "test" something and you do not know the answer
What is an experiment
300
A pond that has a great variety of different organisms, including plants and animals, is healthy because it has a lot of this
What is biodiversity
300
An organism that eats both plants and meat
What is an omnivore
400
I am not an insect and not a fish, but my large claws make me look like a lobster!
What is a crayfish
400
I both eat and am eaten by other animals
What is a secondary consumer
400
The actual steps you take in a science experiment
What is the procedure
400
The pond with the greatest diversity of plant and animal life is called this
What is mature
400
A food chain lacks this, meaning that energy is lost along the way
What is efficiency
500
I am the smallest organism in a pond, but the biggest producer.
What are algae/phytoplankton/diatoms
500
I break down the energy from all organisms in an energy pyramid and return it to the pyramid for reuse
What is a decomposer
500
The expected result if your experiment has no effect on the question
What is the null hypothesis
500
The process by which green plants produce food
What is photosynthesis
500
All of a sudden, all of the minnows in a pond are suddenly struck with a disease and die. I am an organism that would most likely be affected by the minnow's death (and explain why).
What is EITHER algae (might blow up because the main consumer is gone) OR a predator of minnows (might die because their food source is gone).
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