Parts of an Ecosytem
Vocabulary
Eating for Energy
Food Chains & Food Webs
Worldview & Adaptation
100
All the living things of one kind that live in one area.
Population
100
All the living and nonliving things and the environment in which they interact.
Ecosystem
100
A living thing that makes its own food.
Producer
100
The movement of energy from one living thing to another living thing.
Food Chain
100
What does God's design of a food chain provide living things with.
The food chain provides each living thing with energy to use and store.
200
A place where things live. Includes the food, water, and shelter an organism needs to survive.
Habitat
200
A living thing that eats only plants.
Herbivore
200
An animal that eats both plants and animals.
Omnivore
200
Several food chains linked together.
Food webs
200
Why a deer would be able to survive when the temperature gets colder.
The deer has the characteristic to grow thick fur and keep warm.
300
All the living things in one area. All the populations make this up.
Community
300
Anything that can meet a need of an organism.
Resource
300
A pineapple plant is a:
Producer
Consumer
Decomposer
Producer
300
A producer in a food web is always a __________.
Plant
300
Why were there no carnivores before the Fall?
Genesis 1: God created people and animals to eat only plants.
400
Which is bigger? Community or Population?
Community
400
The struggle between two or more living things trying to use the same resource.
Competition
400
How predators help an ecosystem stay balanced.
Predators control population sizes in an ecosystem.
400
The frog's food chain in this web includes the sun, plants and ___________.
Grasshopper
400
How people can take care of the Earth when they go fishing (using the Bible's teaching)
People can limit the amount of fish they catch; God wants us to use the resources He gave us wisely.
500
The difference between an ecosystem and a habitat.
An ecosystem includes all living and nonliving things. A habitat is where a living thing lives and gets food, water, and shelter.
500
An ecosystem stays balanced when ___________ control population sizes.
Predators
500
True or False:
A living thing that makes its own food and gets its energy directly from the sun is a consumer.
False
500
The carnivore in this food web is the ________.
Snake
500
Explain what advantages animals have by living together in groups.
They can find food more easily; protect themselves and offspring from predators; protected from the cold.