Vocabulary
Ecosystems
Isle Royal
Pond Food Chain
Reading Further
100
Predator
What is an animal that eats other animals?
100
healthy ecosystem
What is a place where many kinds of living things can meet their needs?
100
Isolation
What made Isle Royale a great ecological laboratory?
100
algae
What is the producer in a pond food chain?
100
skin
What is the body's covering?
200
Prey
What is an animal that is captured and eaten?
200
unusual weather conditions
What is an example of a non-living thing causing a change in an ecosystem?
200
Isle Royale
What is a huge island in Lake Superior?
200
bacteria
What decomposes algae in a pond ecosystem?
200
dental plaque
What is formed by bacteria in the human mouth?
300
Ecosystem
What are all the living and nonliving things that interact in an area?
300
balanced
What is the predator and prey relationship in a healthy ecosystem?
300
wolf and moose
What is the predator and prey relationship on Isle Royale?
300
oxygen in water
What is one thing fish need to survive?
300
lemon juice
What is the stomach environment like?
400
food chain
What is a model of the path of energy through a series of organisms in an ecosystem?
400
cycle
How does matter move through an ecosystem?
400
an increase in ticks
What is the reason for the death of many moose?
400
tadpole
What eats algae?
400
Chicken Pox
What is a childhood disease caused by a virus?
500
food web
What is a model that shows the many connected food chains and feeding relationships?
500
whole Earth
What is the ecosystem that humans live in?
500
starved
What happened to the wolves when many moose died?
500
too many algae
What can happen if too many nutrients enter the pond?
500
yeast
What is a type of fungi that live on the tongue?
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