Interrelationships
All the organisms of the same species that live in the same place at the same time is a __________.
What is a POPULATION?
This is exchanged in a food chain
What is ENERGY?
When we talk about niche, we are talking about an animal doing its ___________
What is its JOB?
This animal has a niche of eating leaves until it changes into a butterfly, when its niche changes to flying from from flower to flower
What is a CATERPILLAR?
The populations of species that live in the same place at the same time together make up a ___________.
What is a COMMUNITY?
This is a living thing that makes it own food from the sun's energy
What is a PRODUCER?
What animal has a niche of pecking holes into trees to hunt for insects?
What is a WOODPECKER?
Every food chain and web begins with this
What is the SUN?
Different living and nonliving populations living together in the same community is an ________
What is an ECOSYSTEM?
This is a living thing that needs other living things for food
What is a CONSUMER?
What insect has a niche of transferring pollen from flower to flower?
What is a BEE or BUTTERFLY?
These are two ways a human being can harm an animal's habitat or ecosystem
What are LITTERING and CUTTING DOWN TREES?
This describes things in an ecosystem that are not alive, like a rock or a stick
What is a NONLIVING thing?
This is a living thing that needs other dead plants and animals for its food
What is a DECOMPOSER?
What animal has a niche of using its long trunk to drink water?
What is an ELEPHANT?
This would happen if plants all died from a fox's food chain
The fox would die, because it eats animals that need grass to survive
These are the things in an ecosystem that are alive and need some type of food and water to survive
What are LIVING things?
This is a messy, complex group of food chains all put together from one community
What is a FOOD WEB?
The type of SPACE an animal lives in, gets its FOOD and WATER from, and makes a SHELTER in is called its ___________
What is a HABITAT?
True or False: an animal's niche can change as it goes through its life cycle
What is TRUE?