Interactions
Characteristics of Environments & Fossils
Vocab
Interactions2
100
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100
The preserved remains of plants or animals
What are fossils?
100
Animals that only eat plants
What are herbivores?
100
Energy is transferred from the mice to the...
What are owls?
What are snakes?
200
Grass supplying food and oxygen to a hare is an example of a living organism interacting with another ______ organism.
What is living?
200
The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives/operates in
What is environment?
200
the process by which plants make their own food using water, carbon dioxide, and the Sun
What is photosynthesis?
200
A wooded habitat changes as a new road is built.
The animals populations will...
What is decrease?
300
The type of organism that should replace the X in the food web is.....
(herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, producer, decomposer)
What is omnivore?
300
Common duckweed is a small plant that grows on the surface of many ponds and lakes. It is free floating and has a single root.
The type of ecosystem duckweed can be found is...
What is an ecosystem with slow-moving water?
**answers may vary
duckweed can be found in wetlands with slow-moving water
300
A food web is a group of overlapping _____.
What are food chains?
300
A zookeeper sets up a habitat for a certain species of rabbit.
The rabbit running down a rocky path is a __________ interaction.
What is living/non-living?
400
People have begun to move into a forested area, clearing the land, building homes, and planting gardens. A possible effect of these changes is that the deer population will.....
What is decrease?
400
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Free points!
400
The direct path of energy from the sun to a producer to an animal to another animal is a food ______.
What is chain?
400
The table lists ways that four organisms obtain energy.
The organism that obtains energy without depending on another organism is...
What is pine tree?
500
The only animals that receive energy transferred directly from consumers are __________.
What are snowshoe hares and shrews?
500
A fossil of a seashell was discovered in the layers of sedimentary rock. The fossil was two hundred million years old. A valid conclusion can be made that this fossil was originally located _______.
Where is underwater?
500
A small enclosure or closed container in which selected plants and sometimes other living organisms are kept and observed
What is terrarium?
500
A student observed and recorded some activities in an aquarium. An interaction between two living parts of the environment is represented by...
What is Observation 3?