A wide, natural flowing body of water, which move waters from higher to lower elevations.
What is a river?
100
This is the place where a plant or an animal naturally lives.
What is a habitat?
100
An area over which surface water and the materials it carries flows (runoff) to a single collection place.
What is a watershed?
100
Any plant (any organism) that makes its own food using the sun’s energy.
What is a producer?
100
A frog has a sticky tongue so that it is easier to catch flies, which is how the frog gets its energy. This is an example of what type of adaptation?
What is structural adaptation?
200
A conclusion based on evidence and prior knowledge.
What is an inference?
200
This is a group of organisms of one species living in the same area at the same time.
What is a population?
200
We all live downstream! All of the rivers in Virginia flow downstream and eventually meet in one place. This is one of our main watersheds in Virginia, where all four of our major rivers meet.
What is the Chesapeake Bay?
200
Food chains show a transfer of this between plants and animals. Think: what do the arrows in a food chain represent?
What is energy?
200
Leaf frogs are able to change their appearance to blend in with their surroundings and hide from potential predators. This is an example of what type of adaptation?
What is behavioral adaptation?
300
The effect that humans have on the environment around them, can affect the ecosystem negatively or positively, a little bit or in a major way. (2 words)
What is human impact?
300
All of the different populations of organisms that live together in the same place, and interact with one another
What is a community?
300
Name one natural resource that you might find in the Chesapeake Bay.
multiple answers
300
Food chains are cycles that are continuously occurring. In many food chains, there is a top predator who is not often attacked or eaten. When this predator dies, its body will be broken down to provide nutrients to the soil. Name the part of the food chain that does this.
What is a decomposer?
300
Name one animal that might feed on the forest floors of Virginia.
multiple answers
400
The role that an organism has in its habitat.
What is a NICHE?
400
A group of the same species of squirrels living in the same area is an example of:
a. Organisms
b. A community
c. A population
d. A squad
What is a population?
400
Name three non-living parts of our ecosystem outside.
Answers may vary. Examples include: soil, air, water, rocks, the sun.
400
In a food chain, there is an insect population that feeds on the leaves of a tree. The tree dies and is chopped down. What will most likely happen to the insect population?
It will begin to decrease.
400
A cultivated forest is a forest that is developed by humans. A natural forest is a forest that is well-established with little impact on human activity. If I planted 35 trees in an empty space in Virginia, which type of forest would this represent?
What is a cultivated forest?
500
These are THREE mineral resources in VA that can be used to make concrete.
What is limestone, sand, and gravel?
500
These are the four components of a habitat that are necessary for survival. You must name all four!
What is shelter, space, food, and water?
500
Outside, there are trees, animals, insects, and plants that all depend on each other to survive. These are all living things that represent this term.
What is a community?
500
In order to provide themselves with energy, plants use carbon dioxide, sunlight, and water to create their own food in a process called __________________.
What is photosynthesis?
500
Name an example of a food chain that you might see in Virginia. Be sure to include a decomposer, a producer and a consumer.