What name is given to a consumer that eats plants?
Herbivores
100
What is the smallest group in an ecosystem
It is an organism
100
What does a food chain show?
A food chain shows how living things rely on each other for food and how energy is moved from one living thing to another.
100
All living things require _______ to carry out their life process.
Water
200
Which is abiotic factor? A squirrel, two raccoons, a snake, a rock, a palm tree.
A rock
200
What name is given to a consumer that depends on other consumers which depend on producers?
Carnivores
200
Describe a population
A population is one kind of a species that lives in an ecosystem.
200
What is known as an interconnection of food chains?
Food Web
200
Most living things require _______to carry out their life process.
Oxygen
300
Which of the following is an example of a biotic factor: a feather, water, a beetle, rocks, a waterfall
A beetle
300
What name is given to consumers that eat both producers and consumers?
Omnivores
300
Describe what would make up the community of coral reef
A community includes populations of organisms of different species in a specific area.
You will find fish, turtles, sharks, eels, crabs, shrimps, urchins, sponges, and algae to name a few.
300
Name an organism that takes non-living matter (energy from the sun, water, minerals, carbon dioxide) and uses it to produce food (energy) for itself with surplus for other organisms. (WHY?)
Plants are producers because they make their own food.
300
_______ are typical features of an area that determine the types of organisms that can live there.
Temperature
400
What will an ecosystem of a small puddle contain?
A small puddle may contain: Tadpoles, Frogs, Files, fish, snail, water weeds...
400
What name are given to organisms that get energy by breaking down the remains of dead organisms?
Decomposers
400
Describe the difference between a habitat and a community
What is a habitat is the background of an ecosystem- the living plants and nonliving things- no animals.
A community is all the living things (plants and animals) in an ecosystem
400
In a food chain the organism that depends on producers, are called?
Primary Consumers
400
The type of ________in an area influences the kinds of plants that can grow there
Soil
500
In order to survive, all living things need:
All living organisms need space, shelter, air (oxygen), food, and water
500
Arrange the following:
Finally, animals eat the plants. Next, minerals and nutrients are put back into the soil. First, decomposers digest the waste and the remains of dead animals. Then living plants use the nutrients.
First, decomposers digest the waste and the remains of dead animals. Then living plants use the nutrients. Next, minerals and nutrients are put back into the soil. Finally, animals eat the plants.
500
Describe an ecosystem
An ecosystem includes all of the living things (plants, animals and organisms) in a given area, interacting with each other, and also with their non-living environments (weather, earth, sun, soil, climate, atmosphere).
500
Are the following food chain/food web(producers to consumers):
foxes, plants, seed-eating birds, snakes,
Plants, seed-eating birds, foxes or snakes.
500
_________ live in difficult habitats because they have different requirements for survival