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Vocabulary
Food Chains
Potpourri
producer, consumer, or decomposer?
This and That
100

the living and nonliving things that interact in an environment

a. food chain      b. environment

c. ecosystem      d. food web

c. ecosystem

100
What is an animal that hunts another animal for food
predator
100

What could happen if you drastically change an environmental factor in an ecosystem?

organisms could die, animals might migrate, organisms could become extinct
100
mushrooms
What is a decomposer
100

What is the best salt concentration for brine shrimp to hatch? 

a. 10-20 ml/150ml

b. 20-30 ml/150ml

c. 40-50ml/150ml

a. 10-20 ml/150ml

200

What do you call an organism that takes up the most space in an environment?

a. variable        b. spacey

c. dominant      d. tolerant

c. dominant

200
What is an animal that is hunted for food
prey
200

what is the difference between two or more living or nonliving things?

a. concentration      b. environment

c. variation             d. range of tolerance

c. variation

200
grass
What is a producer
200

what was one result of the salt concentration increasing in Monolake?

brine shrimp did not hatch, brine shrimp died, gulls died, predators would be able to reach the gulls

300

all the interacting food chains in an ecosystem is a ....

a. food web        b. food chain

c. environment   d. ecosystem

a. food web

300
What is an organism that makes its own food?

producer

300

Name the four stages, in order, of the mealworm's life cycle.

egg, lavae, pupa, adult beatle

300
wolves
What is a consumer
300

List two examples of how plants depend on animals for survival.

animals disperse seeds, bees pollinate flowers, protection, decomposition

400

an action that helps a plant or animal survive...

a. behavior          b. function

c. variation          c. tolerance

b. function

400
What is a living thing that breaks down dead things for food
decomposer
400

List two examples of how animals depend on plants for survival.

plants give them shelter, plants give them food, plants can provide camouflage

400
bacteria
What is a decomposer
400

What is one way isopods are different from insects?

# of legs

how they use their legs

how they breathe

500

the varying conditions of one environmental factor in which an organism can survive...

a. range of salinity      b. salt tolerance

c. range of tolerance   d. adaptation

c. range of tolerance

500
What is a living thing that gets energy by eating other animals for food
consumers
500

What do you call it when an organism is able to survive in salty conditions?

salt-tolerant

500
vulture
What is a consumer
500

Give two ways aquatic and terrestrial environments are different

*water levels (give example)

*one on land/one on water

*temperature change (one is rapid, one is slow)