Vocabulary
The place an organism lives
Habitat
There are five kingdoms of life, what are all 5 of them?
Animalia, plantae, fungi, protista, monera
OR
Animal, plant, fungi, protista, monera
State the Kingdom of bacteria
Monera
State the type of organism that must start a food chain or food web
Producer
Name an introduced species
Fox, Cat, Cane toad etc.
A living thing
Organism
What are the 5 classes of vertebrates?
Mammal, Amphibian, Fish, Reptile, Bird.
State the name of an organism in the kingdom fungi
Mushroom, yeast, puff ball
State the origin of all energy in a food chain or food web
The sun
The name given to the predator at the top of a food chain
Apex predator
What is the key used to classify living organisms?
Dichotomous key
State the Kingdom that an organism is in with the following characteristics:
Cell wall, nucleus, can make its own food
Plant
State two characteristics of a plant in the division - Fern
Spores, vascular tissue
Construct a food chain using the information below:
A grasshopper preys on grass and is then predated on my a spider which is then consumed by a crow. A cat preys on the crow and a dingo predates on the cat.
grass -> grasshopper -> spider -> crow -> cat -> dingo
Control prey numbers
OR
Control numbers of organisms below them
The conditions that affect an organism in its habitat
environment
State two characteristics of an animal in the class mammalia
fur, feed young milk
State three characteristics of a plant in the division conifer
cones, vascular tissue, seeds
A grasshopper preys on grass and is then predated on my a spider which is then consumed by a crow. A cat preys on the crow and a dingo predates on the cat.
The cat is a _____ order consumer
4th order consumer
The arrow in a food web shows
The directions of the flow of energy from one organism to another (MUST BE EXACT)
Interactions between organisms and the surrounding environment
Ecosystem
State the levels of classification in order from most broad to most specific
kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species
State 3 characteristics of organisms in the kingdom fungi
Cell wall, nucleus, can make their own food
Two part question:
1. The role of decomposers in an ecosystem
2. The importance of decomposers in an ecosystem
1. Breakdown dead organisms
2. return nutrients to the soil for plants to use for growth
State 2 organisms that can be classified as decomposers in an ecosystem
Fungi & bacteria