An individual living thing
Organism
Animals that have to eat other organisms to eat
Consumers
This is the source of all energy on earth.
What is the sun?
Grass ---> Rabbit---> Snake---> Hawk
Given the above example of a food chain, which animal is a source of energy for a snake?
What is a rabbit?
This biome is sandy, rocky, and has hot days with cold nights
Desert
Organisms that are similar
Species
Producers
These are organisms that make their own food and are after the sun in a food chain.
What are producers?
An animal that hunts and kills other animals for food.
What is a predator?
This biome has the largest variety of life as well as the largest amount of rain
The number of a certain species living in an area
This type of animal will eat both producers and consumers
Omnivore
These organisms eat producers.
What are consumers?
Carrot ---> Rabbit---> Snake---> Hawk
What would happen to the Snake population, if the hawk population decreased significantly?
It would increase
This biome is made up of brackish water
Estuary
All of the living things in a certain area
Community
Organisms like lions and wolves are an example of what kind of consumer?
What is a carnivore?
What are the 3 main groups of consumers?
What are herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores?
Algae --->Shrimp--->Minnow--->Perch-->Duck
Which population would increase if the Ship were removed from this food chain?
Algae
This biome gets enough rain to support grasses, but not enough to support an abundance of tall trees
Grassland
Why do we need predators in our ecosystem?
Predators help prevent the overpopulation of prey and by ridding an ecosystem of old, sick, or injured prey, it also help prevent the spread of diseases.
Why are decomposers important for an ecosystems
They put nutrients back into the soil for new plant life to grow
Grass ---> Rabbit---> Snake---> Hawk
Explain what would happen to the grass if the snake population were removed from this ecosystem
Explain how a pond ecosystems could support the animal life in a grassland ecosystem
Land animals from the grassland ecosystem can drink from the pond