A non-living part of an ecosystem. (There are 5)
What is soil, sun, nutrients, air, or water?
Only eats meat
What is a carnivore
This is the source of all energy on Earth and the true beginning of all food chains.
What is the sun?
Give one example of an aquatic ecosystem.
What is an ocean, lake, pond, swamp, stream, or river?
Animal that hunts for its food.
What is a predator?
What is a (tree, shrub, bear, raccoon, etc. take any reasonable response)?
These are organisms that make their own food and are after the sun in a food chain.
What are producers?
Name three things a plant needs to do photosynthesis
What is air, sunlight, water
Animal that is eaten by a predator
What is prey?
Soil is an example of a ____________ part of an ecosystem.
What is nonliving?
The organism that eats the producer is called this.
What is a consumer?
Give an example of a decomposer.
What is a fungi, bacteria, protist, insect, or worm?
Organism that cannot make its own food.
What is a consumer?
Fungus is an example of this.
What is a decomposer?
A bear is an example of ________________.
What is an omnivore?
What happens if a "link" in the food chain is broken?
What is all of the species that come after that link have to make adjustments - maybe eat something else or go somewhere else in search of food?
The vocabulary word for an organisms role in an ecosystem.
What is niche?
Organism that makes its own food through photosynthesis.
What is a producer?
The difference between a population and a community.
What is a population is one species in a given area (a population of ducks) and a community is multiple species in an area (a population of ducks, insects, and frogs).
Organism that completes the food chain by turning dead waste into nutrients that go back into the soil.
What are decomposers?
Give an example of how an organism's niche can change as the organism grows and matures or changes?
What is it could change from prey to predator? (Take any reasonable answer that students can explain and support.)
Organism that obtains nutrients from dead organisms around it.
What is a decomposer?