Living/Nonliving
What do you eat?
Food Chains
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Role in the Ecosystem
100

A non-living part of an ecosystem. (There are 5)

What is soil, sun, nutrients, air, or water?

100

Only eats meat

What is a carnivore

100

This is the source of all energy on Earth and the true beginning of all food chains.

What is the sun?

100

Give one example of an aquatic ecosystem.

What is an ocean, lake, pond, swamp, stream, or river?

100

Animal that hunts for its food.

What is a predator?

200
An example of a living thing in a forest ecosystem.

What is a (tree, shrub, bear, raccoon, etc. take any reasonable response)?

200
Only eats plants
What is a herbivore
200

These are organisms that make their own food and are after the sun in a food chain.

What are producers?

200

Name three things a plant needs to do photosynthesis

What is air, sunlight, water

200

Animal that is eaten by a predator

What is prey?

300

Soil is an example of a ____________ part of an ecosystem.

What is nonliving?

300
Eats both plants and animals
What is an omnivore
300

The organism that eats the producer is called this.

What is a consumer?

300

Give an example of a decomposer.

What is a fungi, bacteria, protist, insect, or worm?

300

Organism that cannot make its own food.

What is a consumer?

400

Fungus is an example of this.

What is a decomposer?

400

A bear is an example of ________________.

What is an omnivore?

400

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?

400

The vocabulary word for an organisms role in an ecosystem.

What is niche?

400

Organism that makes its own food through photosynthesis.

What is a producer?

500

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).

500
Why do we need predators in our ecosystem?
Because without predators we have would have too much prey.
500

Organism that completes the food chain by turning dead waste into nutrients that go back into the soil.

What are decomposers?

500

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.)

500

Organism that obtains nutrients from dead organisms around it.

What is a decomposer?