Plants and Animals
A Canadian Goose migrates for the winter. Is this a physical or behavioral adaptation?
What is a Behavioral Adaptation
What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?
What is a food chain show the flow of energy of select populations in an ecosystem a food web shows all of the interlocking food chains
What would be 2 results of a wetland being bulldozed to make room for development?
What is Flooding in the area, plants and animals die, changed the ecosystem, increases pollution in air and water
What are 3 types of wetlands?
What is Bog, Feb, Swamp, Marsh, Pond
Name the 3 Plant Zones in a Wetland?
What are emergent, floating and submergent zones
What role does a beaver play in a wetland?
What is to create a dam and to keep the fish population down
Put the following in the correct order of a food chain:
tertiary consumer, primary consumer, decomposer, secondary consumer, producer
What is Producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer, tertiary consumer, decomposer
What can you do to conserve the wetlands?
What is Teach people, never remove plants or animals, prevent pollution, stop construction
What is the soil of a wetland like?
Acts like a sponge, filters all kinds of water to make it clean for organisms
What kinds of plants are located on the floating zone?
Plants that float on the surface using special pockets of air
If an insect in a wetland becomes extinct, what does it affect?
What is it affects the entire ecosystem.
Unscramble the food chain
Grasshopper 🡪 Hawk 🡪 Frog 🡪 Fungi 🡪 Sun
What is Sun 🡪 Grasshopper 🡪 Frog 🡪 Hawk 🡪 Fungi
What are the benefits of a wetland?
What is Filters water and air, prevents flooding, supports wildlife, sponge like to prevent drought
What is the difference between a biotic and abiotic factor? Give examples of both
Biotic: living (animals, plants) Abiotic: non-living (sun, water, temperature)
What is the most important animal in an ecosystem?
There is not animal that is more important than another, all of the biotic factors in an ecosystem are needed for it to thrive
What is a herbivore, omnivore and carnivore?
What is Herbivore is only eats plants, Omnivore eats plants and meat, Carnivore eats meat
What is a life cycle?
What is the stages of an organisms life
What is your predicted opinion of the government regarding the removal of wetlands?
What is Protect a percentage of the wetlands but development and construction is just as important
Put the following in order of least significant to most significant:
Ecosystem, habitat, population, niche, community
Niche, habitat, population, community, ecosystem
What is the difference between a producer and a consumer?
What is a producer is able to produce its own nutritional needs a consumer must eat to gain nutrition
Why does a food chain start with the sun and end with decomposers?
What is Because the sun is the abiotic factor that gives producers its nutrients and decomposers break down consumers in order to feed the producers
What is a wetland? What is an ecosystem?
What is Wetland – areas that are too wet to be considered land but not wet enough to be considered a lake
What is Ecosystem – community of organisms including biotic and abiotic factors
What is the difference between a physical and behavioral adaptation?
Physical – modification to the structure of a living thing Behavioral – modification in the way a living thing acts