Vocabulary
Mushrooms and earthworms are examples of ______.
What are decomposers?
Ecosystems stay balanced when these control population sizes.
What are predators?
The movement of energy from one living thing to another.
What is a food chain?
Several food chains linked together.
What is a food web?
True or False?
All carnivores are animals.
False. Some plants are carnivores.
An animal that eats both plants AND animals.
What is an omnivore?
Heavy rains and flooding.
What are things that change an ecosystem?
A plant-eater.
What is a herbivore?
This happens when one part of a food web changes.
What is...it affects ALL of the web.
Trees and shrubs that live in deserts grow long roots.
What is a characteristic that helps it survive?
When animals share the same limited resource, there is ______.
What is competition?
Not enough rain.
What is one way to cause a change in an ecosystem?
A meat-eater.
What is a carnivore?
Grasshoppers, rabbits, squirrels, giraffes, and chipmunks are all examples of this kind of consumer.
What are herbivores?
A camel storing fat in a drought.
What is a characteristic that helps an organism survive in a changed environment?
All the living and nonliving things and the environment in which they interact.
What is an ecosystem?
All the populations, communities, and habitats make up an _________.
What is an ecosystem?
A living thing that makes its own food and gets its energy directly from the sun.
What is a producer?
A food web contains the following:
Plant, snake, frog, fox & grasshopper.
The fox is this type of consumer.
What is an omnivore?
A squirrel making a nest in a tree.
What is an instinct?
*Find food more easily
*Gives animals & young protection
*Protection from cold
*Hunt bigger animals
What are some of the reasons animals live in groups?
People can limit the amount of fish they catch, only catch what they will eat. God wants us to use the resources that He has provided carefully. When people make wise choices in the ecosystem, they glorify God.
How can people take care of the earth when they go fishing? (using Biblical teaching)
The Bible says in Genesis 1 that God created people and animals to eat only plants.
Why were there no carnivores before the fall?
True or False?
One animal in a food web can be both predator and prey.
What is TRUE?
What are predators?