1.Eco-Systems & Organisms
Green plants are called this because they use sunlight to make their own food.
What are producers?
To feed on grasses, clover, and the green leaves of trees.
What is to graze?
People who move to a brand new place with the specific plan to stay and build homes there.
What are settlers?
An animal that hunts and kills other animals for its food.
What is a predator?
Because animals like elk must eat other living things to get nutrients, they are classified as this.
What are consumers?
An area of land that is controlled and aggressively defended by an animal or a pack.
What is a territory?
This historical term describes the long period of time before European settlers arrived in North America.
What is precolonial?
The specific system or sequence in which living things depend on each other for food and energy.
What is a food chain?
An area of completely natural, wild land where humans do not live or build cities.
What is a wilderness?
This is a group of plants or animals that are alike and can produce offspring together.
What is a species?
This word describes the leader of a pack who holds power over the other animals.
What is dominant?
This word describes the very first, original groups of people to live in a specific geographic area.
What is indigenous?
The total count or number of a specific animal or person living in a certain place.
What is a population?
This word describes all the living things in one place and their connection to the nonliving things around them.
What is an ecosystem?
The natural, automatic way an animal behaves without ever being taught.
What is an instinct?
The essential materials found inside food that living things absolutely need to survive, grow, and stay healthy.
What are nutrients?
If a community rebuilds and fixes up an old, run-down park to make it look like it originally did, they have done this to it.
What is restored?
True or False: A forest ecosystem includes nonliving items like rocks and water.
What is True?
This behavior involves finding and eating dead or decaying animal remains rather than hunting live prey.
What is to scavenge?
In the food chain consisting of plants, elk, and wolves, this organism represents the primary predator.
What is a wolf?