Habitats & Basic Needs
What are the 4 basic survival needs that every habitat must provide for a plant or animal?
Food, Water, Shelter, and Space
Where does ALL the energy in every habitat and food chain originally come from?
The Sun
What do we call a group of the exact same species living together, like all 20 Mallard Ducks in a pond?
A population
Is a severe summer drought that dries up a pond a natural disruption or a human-caused disruption?
Natural distruption
In your own words, what is a habitat?
The natural place or environment where a plant or animal lives and finds its basic needs
What is the difference between a Producer and a Consumer?
A Producer (plant) makes its own food using sunlight; a Consumer (animal) must eat plants or other animals for energy
In a forest habitat, what is the difference between the deer population and the forest community?
The population is ONLY the deer. The community is ALL the different living things in that forest put together (deer + trees + hawks + bears + squirrels)!
Name 2 basic survival needs wild animals lose when humans cut down a forest to build a highway.
Shelter and Space or Food and Water
A Canadian Beaver builds a large lodge out of sticks and mud in the middle of a pond. Which 2 basic survival needs does the lodge provide?
Shelter (protected from the cold and predators) and Space (a home to live in and store food)
Describe what makes a human an Omnivore. Give one example of a plant food and one animal food you eat!
Humans eat both plants and animals (e.g., apples/bread from plants + chicken/cheese from animals)
In an Ontario marsh, you see Mallard Ducks, Bullfrogs, Painted Turtles, Dragonflies, and Cattails. Do all these organisms together make up a Population or a Community?
A COMMUNITY (because it includes many different species living and interacting together)!
Give one example of a human-caused disruption that harms an ecosystem.
Building roads/highways, cutting down forests (deforestation), or water pollution.