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Ecosystems
Who Live Here?
Chain, Chain, Chain
Think Green
How Old Are You?
100
All the living and nonliving parts that interact in an environment.
What is an ecosystem?
100
Plants make their own energy which makes them this.
What is a producer?
100
These organisms are at the bottom of an energy pyramid.
What is producers?
100
Give three examples of a resource.
What is air, water, food, shelter, anything that is an important material for living things?
100
When a specie no longer exists.
What is extinct?
200
Three types of nonliving things in an ecosystem.
What is sunlight, soil, water, air, and landforms?
200
Food chains, food webs, and energy pyramids all start with this.
What is the sun?
200
The transfer of energy from one organism to another by eating and being eaten.
What is a food chain?
200
Two or more living things that need the same resources.
What is competition?
200
In layers of sediments, the younger fossils are where?
What is at the top?
300
An ecosystem that is hot, dry and includes plants like cacti and animals like coyotes and lizards.
What is a desert? *Make sure you know the different types of ecosystems!
300
Name three types of consumers and what they eat.
What is an herbivore that eats plants, carnivore that eats meat, and an omnivore that eats both plants and animals?
300
A food web is made up of these.
What is food chains?
300
This plant took away resources for many plants, but helped stop erosion.
What is the kudzu?
300
The type of fossil where space in the rock is the shape of what was once a living thing.
What is mold fossil? *Make sure you know the different types of fossils!
400
All the wildebeests that live in an area is and example of this.
What is a population?
400
The reason why decomposers are important for an ecosystem.
What is decomposers break down plant and animal waste and turn it back into nutrients?
400
If you take out an animal or a plant in a food web, you upset this.
What is the balance?
400
Name one way beavers helped the environment and one way they hurt the environment.
What is made a pond where fish and water plants live, but stopped water from getting to nearby places?
400
This type of scientist studies fossils.
What is a paleontologist?
500
Fins on a fish is an example of an adaptation that helps it do this.
What is survive?
500
This would happen if you removed the sun from an ecosystem.
What is plants would not be able to make their own food and animals would not get their resources?
500
Name one good thing and one bad thing that could happen if you take out the mouse in this food chain? grass-->grasshopper-->mouse-->hawk
What is good - grasshopper population increases, bad - the hawk population decreases?
500
Name two ways that humans can change the environment.
What is cause pollution, build homes in other animal's or plant's habitat, add chemicals to crops, etc.?
500
Name three things fossils can teach us.
What is what the environment used to be like, what an animals or plant used to look like, what an animal used to eat, how long ago things lived?