Foodwebs
A food web is __________.
A) The food spiders catch in their webs.
B) A combination of several food chains linked together.
C) The process a plant uses to create food using energy from the sun.
D) None of the above.
What is B) A combination of several food chains linked together.
This word describes the TOTAL number of a specific organism for a given area.
What is population?
True or False: Consumers form the base of any energy pyramid.
What is false?
What was the purpose of building biosphere 2?
What is to support extended stays in outer space?
Which is not a biotic factor? A) air B) turtle C) waterlily D) mallard duck
What is A) air?
This is the source in which all food webs get energy.
What is the sun?
Which does NOT describe a habitat? A) a specific area where an animal spends most of its time B) a specific area where an organism lives C) Milkweed plant is where a milkweed bug lives D) it is the number of a particular species
What is D) it is the number of a particular species?
In an energy pyramid describing an ocean food web, which organism would be the tertiary consumer?
A.) Coral
B.) Seaweed
C.) Sea lion
D.) Great White Shark
What is D.) Great White Shark?
Where is biosphere 2 located?
Where is Arizona?
True or False: An ecosystem must have both biotic and abiotic factors interaction together.
What is true?
In order to place an organism in the appropriate spot in a food web, you must know these two things, _______ & _________.
What is what an organism eats and what eats it?
In order to have an aquatic ecosystem, what primary abiotic factor does the community of organisms interact with?
What is water?
Which of the following is not an example of a decomposer?
A.) Owl
B.) Mushroom
C.) Earthworm
D.)Fungi
What is A.) Owl?
The first mission failed because the scientists had a problem with __________.
What were the oxygen levels went down?
Which of the following is an abiotic factor required for our aquatic minihabitats?A) Fish B) Aquatic Snail C) Water D) Elodea
What is C) Water?
When building a food web for a forest ecosystem, Tyler was having an issue getting started. Which of the following organisms would be the best place for Tyler to start building his food web?
A.) Rabbit
B.) Wolf
C.) Snake
D.) Grass
What is D.) Grass?
What role does a wolf play in a forest ecosystem?
A) Consumer
B) Producer
C) Niche
D) Decomposer
What is A) Consumer?
On a farm ecosystem, a cow would be considered the primary consumer because _____________.
Biosphere 2 contains this many biomes.
What is 5 biomes?
Is an earthworm biotic or abiotic?
What is biotic?
In a farm ecosystem, which of the following organisms would NOT have any predators (all of the arrows would point TO this organism)?
A.) Cow
B.) Grass
C.) Human
D.) Chicken
What is C.) Human?
Every plant or animal has its own special ROLE within an ecosystem; This is called its A) species B) niche C) decomposer D) producer
What is B) niche?
Which of the following would be an example of a decomposer breaking down an organism and returning the energy back to the soil?
A.) A shark eating a seal.
B.) Maggots on a dead squirrel in the woods.
C.) A plant growing in a sunny window sill.
D.) A cow eating grass on a farm.
What is B.) Maggots on a dead squirrel in the woods?
Biosphere 1 is _________.
What is the Earth?
Anny is working on sorting factors from an ecosystem into biotic and abiotic categories. She is having trouble deciding on whether or not algae is living or nonliving. Which of the following is an example of a question she can ask herself to help her decide whether algae is biotic or abiotic?
A.) Does it grow?
B.) What color is it?
C.) What size is it?
D.) Is it hard or soft?
A.) Does it grow?