Chapter 7: Lesson 3
What is weathering?
breaking down of rock on Earth's surface into smaller pieces
What is a producer?
Any living thing that can make its own food
Define Habitat
An environment that meets the needs of a living thing
Most living things on Earth get the energy to live from
sunlight
How are sinkforms formed?
When water slowly dissolves underground rock
How are producers and consumers alike
they need energy to keep living
why is it important to have predators?
Predators limit the number of prey animals in a habitat
why do mosquitos need blood?
need blood to produce eggs
List 4 ways rocks break down through Physical Processes.
water, ice, living things, wind
eats both plants and animals.
What would happen if two kinds of animals living in the same habitat had the same niche?
They would compete with each other for food or space. Causing death or moving to another habitat
where do bracket fungi often grow?
dead tree trunks
explain how erosion has helped humans?
shaping the plains and landforms for humans to live on
What would happen to plants if all the decompers disappeared?
Plants would not get enough nutrients from the soil to grow well.
explain the difference between food chain and food web
food chain is the movement of food energy in a sequence of living things and food web are a combination of food chains all together
Archerfish hunt how? What is their special technique?
hunt by spitting at insects to knock them into the water
What is the largest type of sediment?
Boulders
sow bugs are a type of decompers that are related to what sea creature?
why does an energy pyramid get narrower at each level from bottom to top?
Each level has fewer living things than the level below it
smallest type of sediment?
clay