The living and nonliving parts that interact with each other.
What is an ecosystem?
100
Consumers that eat only plants.
What is an herbivore?
100
All the different chains in a community linked together.
What is a food web?
100
Name the three parts of the water cycle.
What is evaporation, condensation, and precipitation?
100
Organisms that eat different kinds of food, also known as their role, is this.
What is a niche?
200
This nonliving part of the ecosystem is poor in nutrients.
What is soil?
200
Process by which plants use sunlight to make sugar from water and carbon dioxide.
What is photosynthesis?
200
As you go up a food pyramid, this decreases by this much?
What is the available amount of energy by one-tenth?
200
Plants use this to make proteins.
What is nitrogen compounds?
200
Sugar is a product of this process.
What is photosynthesis?
300
Poison arrow dart frogs can be found in this part of the rainforest.
What is the bottom?
300
Name four parts of the plants that use sugar from the leaves.
What is roots, stems, branches, flower, or leaves?
300
The first level of the food pyramid are these.
What are producers?
300
Consumers give off this that producers need.
What is carbon dioxide?
300
Food chains start with these that get their energy from this.
What is producers that get energy from the sun?
400
Two purposes for plants having roots.
What is to anchor them to the ground and take in water?
400
This organism uses up what scavengers leave behind.
What are decomposers?
400
The arrows in a food chain or food web represents this.
What is how energy gets passed from one organism to another?
400
This can combine nitrogen gas from the air with other substances to form nitrogen compounds that organisms use.
What is bacteria?
400
Name three things about the rainforest's climate.
What is rains often, humidity is high, same amount of sunlight everyday, temperature is about the same, always warm?
500
The temperature of the rainforest doesn't do this.
What is vary?
500
Name two types of decomposers.
What is fungi, worms, and/or bacteria?
500
Give an example of a positive and negative affect of an organism being take out of the food chain.
What is
example - taking a frog out of the food chain
+ the population of insects increase
-the population of snakes decrease
500
Name two ways water goes through the nonliving parts of an ecosystem.
What is
precipitation turns to runoff on land or water
water evaporates from oceans
water soaks into the ground and becomes groundwater
water condenses in air
500
Name two things that can happen to the nutrients of a living thing dies in the rainforest.
What is scavengers eat the remains, decomposers break it down and release nutrients, or plants can take in the nutrients for growing?