Food Chains
In a food chain the main energy source.
What is the sun?
The conditions and influences that affect the growth, health, progress, etc. of someone or something.
What is environment?
This is a group of plants and animals in the same region that have adapted together to the region's environment. It includes the biotic and abiotic components.
What is a biome?
The most likely outcome if all of the decomposers in a forest food web were removed would be...
What is there would be an increase in waste materials and less nutrients would be returned to the soil for producers?
Describes the long-term weather pattern of a region. It affects yearly rainfall (precipitation) and temperature ranges.
What is climate?
In a food chain this would be a consumer that only eats plants.
What is a herbivore?
The name of a partially enclosed coastal region where fresh water flows into salt water.
What is a estuary?
This is a term used to describe an ecological community in which moisture and temperature are high and receives a great deal of rainfall.
What is a tropical rainforest biome?
There are human activities that can disturb natural ecosystems...name two of these activities.
What is drainage and filling of wetlands for housing?
What is deforestation?
What is pollution?
There are fewer types of animals able to survive in a desert compared to other environments. This is true because...
What is animals are consumers, and a desert's dry environment does not support a large number of producers for consumers to eat?
This is the term used for any living thing in an ecosystem.
What is a biotic organism?
The biotic and abiotic factors interacting within the setting of a community.
What is an ecosystem?
The arrows in a food chain (energy pyramid) show the flow of this...
What is energy?
If an ecosystem was changed by humans for a shopping mall and birds had to move to another area, this would be a big problem because..
What is the moving birds would have to compete for resources with the birds that already live in that area?
The venus fly trap is a plant that attracts insects and digests them. This plant would best be classified as....
What is a carnivore?
In a food chain this is the organism that returns nutrients back into the soil from dead plants or animals.
What is a decomposer?
Two things that the Taiga and Tundra biomes have in common.
What is coldest place on earth, and located in the northernmost part of the Earth?
Mosquito season begins when the daily temperatures are above 50 degrees F. Mosquito season in Maine, located in the northeast corner of the country, is 5 months shorter than mosquito season in Florida. This is due to...
What is Florida's seasons do not change very much, and temperatures get higher much more quickly?
A grassland environment called a savanna would be able to support the energy needs of carnivores because...
What is grasslands have lots of producers for herbivores to eat which then provides food for the carnivores?
For the carbon cycle and the nitrogen cycle to function properly, these organisms must always be present....
What are decomposers?
This display graphically show the energy that is available at each trophic level in a food chain.
What is an energy pyramid?
The biome that has a deep layer of permanently frozen soil called permafrost.
What is the tundra?
There are several negative effects if there is a change in a biome's climate...name two of them.
What is too much rain which causes destruction through flooding and can completely change the environment? What is too little rain and there is drought and dead of all living organisms?
One of the following is NOT a quality of a river environment that helps catfish to thrive.
a. It has a hard, shallow bottom
b. It has a lot of salt in the water
c. It has many safe place to hide
d. It has many small food animals
What is it has a lot of salt in the water?
The factor that has the greatest influence on the type of ecosystem that will form in a particular area is...
What is climate in the area of the ecosystem?