All the abiotic and biotic factors in an area that interact.
What is an ecosystem?
100
Part water, part land.
What is a coastal wetland?
100
An animal that hunts and eats other animals.
What is a predator?
100
All of the conditions surrounding an organism.
What is an environment?
100
Any substance that damages the environment.
What is pollution?
200
Name three abiotic factors.
What is water, air, temperature, soil, and sunlight?
200
Found in the midwest, mostly made up of grass, coyotes, and grasshoppers.
What is a prairie?
200
This type of organism makes their own food for energy.
What is a producer?
200
An example of a slow change.
What is climate change?
200
A plant or animal that does not grow naturally in an ecosystem.
What is a nonnative specie?
300
A habitat includes these three things that an organism needs.
What is food, water, and shelter?
300
Fir trees, spruce trees, cold winters, soil low in nutrients, hawks, and elk.
What is a taiga?
300
Give an example of a decomposer and its niche in an ecosystem.
What is mushroom, earthworm, or bacteria? All absorb dead organisms and return nutrients back to the soil?
300
The benefit of a locust swarm eating crops.
What is birds will have food?
300
An attempt to preserve or protect an environment from harmful changes.
What is conservation?
400
The difference between a population and a community.
What is a population is a group of one type of specie and a community is made up of different populations?
400
Has a high amount of moisture in the air, warm temperature, orchids, tree frogs, and parrots.
What is tropical rainforest?
400
Name all three types of consumers and what they eat.
What is carnivore - only eats other animals, herbivores - only eats plants, omnivore - eats both plants and animals?
400
If organisms struggle for the same limited resources.
What is competition?
400
A fireman created a controlled fire in a forest. Give a reason why this is beneficial and a reason this is not beneficial.
What is the fire can clear dead debris and allow for more plants and animals to grow, what is not beneficial - pollutes the air and destroys habitats?
500
Snakes eat both rats and mice in an ecosystem. If snakes eat more mice than rats in a month, this can happen.
What is the population of mice will decrease or the rat population will increase?
500
Name two abiotic and two biotic factors in the coral reef ecosystem.
What are abiotic - warm temperature, water, sunlight, biotic - clown fish, anemones, sponges?
*I may ask abiotic and biotic factors of ANY ecosystem!
500
The difference between a food chain and a food web.
What is a food chain is the energy that flows from one organism to another and a food web is made up of different type so food chains?
*Be prepared to explain what affects a food chain or food web!
500
Three things that could happen if an organism's resource is limited.
What is the organism can die out, adapt to the change, or move someplace else?
500
A benefit and a non-benefit of the garlic-mustard plant brought to the United States from Europe.
What is benefit - food and medicine for people, non-benefit- grew and spread so quickly that other plants can grow and animals had less to eat?