Definitions
A food chain
What organism get their energy directly from the sun and change the energy into a form that other organisms can use?
Learned behaviors are inherited?
False-instincts
The place where an organism lives
What provides the energy for all living things?
Sun
What are the animals that a predator hunts called?
Prey
What is an animal that hunts and eats other animals called?
Predator
What type of organisms eat both plants and animals?
Omnivore
Plants need sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water for photosynthesis?
True
each living member of an ecosystem is called
individual
What is a consumer that eats only other consumers called?
Carnivore
What is the movement of a whole group of animals from one ecosystem to another ecosystem?
Migration
What are the special characteristics or skills that help things survive in their environments called?
Adaptations
Which organisms do food chains begin with?
Producers
The environment is the living part of an ecosystem?
False- nonliving
Community
What keeps the ecosystem clean by eating what has already died?
Scavenger
Daily Double: What are the 4 basic needs of of living things?
Food, water, protection from consumers, and shelter
What is it called when 2 or more organisms are trying to use the same resources?
Competition
What organisms break down dead things and wastes?
Decomposers
An ecosystem consists of all of the living organisms and their environment in a certain section of the earth.
True
Daily Double: An organism's specific function or job in the ecosystem is called a
niche
An energy pyramid shows how energy moves through how many food chains?
One
One reason an animal might migrate?
1. reproduce or raise young
2. search for food or water
3. Avoid weather that is too hot or too cold
DAILY DOUBLE: What is a special partnership called in which 2 species interact with each other over a long period of time?
Symbiosis
What organisms depend on producers for food?
Consumers
Any organism that lives on or in another organism and gets food from that organism is a called a host?
False-parasite
All the organisms of the same species that live in a ecosystem are called a
population
What are several food chains that are linked together called?
Web
Why should a Christian learn about the interactions in ecosystems?
So you can exercise good dominion and live in habitats without destroying them.