Food Chains
Relationships
Ecosystems
Organisms
True or False (If false, give the correct answer.)
100

Which organism does a food chain begin with?

Producers

100

What is the name given to a special partnership in which two species interact with each other over a long period of time?

Symbiosis

100

All the different species that live in a particular ecosystem

population

100

Organisms that get their energy directly from the sun and change the energy into a form that other organisms can use.

producers

100

Learned behaviors are inherited

False    Instincts are inherited.

200

What is an animal that hunts and eats other animals called?

the predator

200

What provides energy for all living things?

The sun

200

an organism's specific function or job in the ecosystem

Niche

200

Organisms that break down dead things and wastes

Decomposers

200

Plants need sunlight, water, and oxygen for photosyntheses.

False - Sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide are needed.

300

What do we call an animal that eats only plants?

Herbivore

300

What is the name given to the special characteristics or skills that help living things survive in their environments?

adaptations

300

The place where an organism lives

habitat

300

Organisms that depend on producers for food

consumers

300

Food, water, protection from consumers, and shelter are four basic needs of all living things.

True

400

What do you call an animal that eats both plants and animals?

Omnivore

400

All the organisms of the same species that live in an ecosystem.

Population

400

each living member of an ecosystem

Individual

400

Any organism that lives on or in another organism and gets food from that organism is called a 

Parasite

400

A food web shows how energy moves through one food chain in an ecosystem.

False - Energy Pyramid

500

What is the transfer of energy and nutrients through a community called?

a food chain

500

Name the three types of symbiosis and describe that relationship.

parasitism - one benefits while the other suffers

mutualism - both benefit

commensalism - one benefits while the other is not 

                        hurt

500

The nonliving part of an ecosystem

Environment

500

What is the name given to the movement of a whole group of animals from one ecosystem to another ecosystem?

Migration

500

Animals that a predator hunts is called his quarry.

False - Prey