Living and Nonliving
Vocabulary
Photosynthesis
Organism Relationships
Cycling of Energy
100
Is sunlight living or non-living?
Non-living
100
Define biotic
Living
100
What is one thing that plants need for photosynthesis?
Water, Carbon Dioxide, Sunlight
100
What eats producers?
Primary Consumers
100
What is there more of in a food web? Producers or consumers?
Producers
200
Provide an example of a biotic limiting factor.
Answers my vary.
200
Define prey.
An organism that is hunted.
200
What two things does photosynthesis produce?
Sugar and Oxygen
200
What is the name of something that hunts something else?
Predator, Consumer
200
Where does the energy in a food web start?
Producers or Sunlight
300
Provide an example of an abiotic limiting factor.
Answers may vary.
300
Define scavenger.
An organism that looks for and eats dead organisms.
300
Where does photosynthesis occur?
The chloroplast.
300
What happens if a primary consumer is removed from a food web?
The producers increase and the secondary consumers decrease.
300
What happens to the energy in an ecosystem as it goes from producers to consumers?
It decreases.
400
Is a disease biotic or abiotic?
Biotic.
400
What is the difference between herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores?
Herbivores only eat producers, carnivores only eat consumers, and omnivores eat both producers and consumers.
400
What is the purpose of cellular respiration?
Convert sugar to usable energy.
400
What are the two types of limiting factors? Give an example of each.
Biotic and abiotic.
400
Which way do the arrows point in a food web?
From producers to consumers. The arrow follows the energy.
500
Name an important relationship between a biotic and an abiotic thing in an ecosystem.
Answers may vary.
500
What is ATP?
Usable energy created through cellular respiration.
500
How are photosynthesis and cellular respiration related?
Photosynthesis creates the reactants for cellular respiration.
500
Robins eat worms. What would happen if another bird was introduced that also eats worms?
Due to competition, the population of worms would decrease, which would then cause the population of robins to decrease as well.
500
What happens to the matter in a food web after something dies?
Decomposers break it down and it goes back into the Earth.
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