Vocabulary
What is the living and nonliving things that interact in an environment
an ecosystem
What is the beginning group of all food chains?
producers
What is energy?
mushrooms
What is a decomposer
If a fox and hawk both eat rodents (mice, rats, ect.), what would happen to the rodents if the fox and hawk became overabundant?
A. the rodent population would become overabundant
B. the rodents would move to a different ecosystem
C. the rodent population would become scarce
what is the rodent population would become scarce
What is a group of organisms of the same kind living in the same place
a population
What is an animal that is hunted for food
prey
What ecosystem would you find a dry climate, sand, and cacti year round?
What is a desert ecosystem
grass
What is a producer
If there was a drought for many years, what would likely happen to the grass and mice?
A. the grass would grow quickly and there would be an overabundance of mice.
B. the grass would grow quickly and there would be a scarcity of mice.
C. the grass would wilt and die and there would be an overabundance of mice.
D. the grass would wilt and die and there would be a scarcity of mice.
What is D. the grass would wilt and die and there would be a scarcity of mice.
What is an overlapping food chain
a food web
What is a living thing that gets energy by eating other animals for food
consumers
This organism makes its own food
What is a producer?
wolves
What is a consumer
If hawks eat mice, the mice eat grasshoppers and the grasshoppers eat grass, what is most likely to happen if there is a shortage of grasshoppers?
A. The population of mice and hawks will become overabundant
B. The population of grass will become scarce
C. The population of mice and hawks will become scarce
D. The population of mice will become overabundant, but the population of hawks will become scarce
What is C. The population of mice and hawks will become scarce
What is it called when there is very little of a population left?
Scarcity
What is a living thing that breaks down dead things for food
decomposer
What is it called when there are no more of a certain type of organism on earth?
What is extinction?
bacteria
What is a decomposer
Natural Disasters that can disrupt food webs
What is drought, tornados, Earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions, ect.
Where an animal lives
What is an animal that hunts another animal for food
predator
Producers get their energy from
What is the sun?
vulture
What is a consumer
We can do these things to help ecosystems
What is do not liter, cut down trees, overhunt, ect.