Ecosystems
Covered with grasses with medium amounts of rain. grasshoppers, prairie chickens, and bison live there.
What is Grasslands?
Living things that make their own food.
What are producers?
The transfer of energy from one organism to another by eating and being eaten.
What is a food chain?
A preserved track, nest, or eggshell.
What is a trace fossil?
Coal and oil are these.
What is fossil fuels?
The driest ecosystem has cacti.
What is desert?
Living things that eat other plants or animals to live.
What are consumers?
The food chain energy always starts with this.
What is sunlight?
I am a fossil that preserves the hard and soft parts of an animal.
What is a fossil in amber?
I study fossils.
What is a paleontologist?
The land is covered with water for part of the year.
What is Wetlands?
Animals that eat plants?
What are herbivores?
A food source can be part of more than one food chain.
What is a food web?
Two or more living things need the same resources to survive.
What is competition?
No longer exists.
What is extinct?
This ecosystem has ground that is frozen beneath the surface all year.
What is Tundra?
Animals that eat other animals.
What are carnivores?
An organism such as an earthworm that eats the remains of animals.
What is a decomposer/
This animal changes the habitat by building a dam, so a stream becomes a pond.
What is a beaver?
Bits of rock, sand, shell, and other materials that harden into rock.
What is sediments?
The mild and rainy climate can be tropical or not.
What is Rain forest?
Animals that eat plants & animals?
What are omnivores?
These things are passed along in a food chain.
What is energy and matter?
They often change the environment to meet their needs but may cause damage to habitats.
What is humans?
The counting of a species in an area.
What is the population?