Biotic or Abiotic
An animal in an ecosystem
What is a biotic factor?
Animals that only eat meat
What are carnivores?
This is the source of all energy on earth.
What is the sun?
Carrot ---> 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?
I hunt and kill other animals for food.
What is a predator?
A pond in an ecosystem
What is an abiotic factor?
Animals that eat only plants.
What are herbivores?
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?
Animals that are hunted and eaten by a predator.
What is prey?
The weather is an example of this
What is abiotic factor?
I am this type of consumer because I enjoy fish from the river and berries from the forest.
What is an omnivore?
These organisms eat producers.
What are consumers?
The tuna population decreases due to overfishing. How will the minnow population be affected?
It will increase.
If the water supply in an area dries up, this is what will happen to the populations in that area who depend on the source of water.
What is decrease?
Fungus is an example of this
What is biotic factor? (Decomposer)
I am this type of consumer because I enjoy tasty frogs, snakes, and mice.
What is a carnivore?
What are the 3 main groups of consumers?
What are herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores?
Jaylen said that rattlesnakes, brush, cacti, and scorpions in a desert are examples of a population, but Jacob said they are examples of a community. Who is correct?
JACOB
I breakdown dead or decaying matter. My roll in the ecosystem is to ____________________
What is provide nutrients to the soil for producers.
The sun in an ecosystem
What is an abiotic factor?
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.
Organisms such as termites, worms, and fungi that break down dead or decaying matter.
What are decomposers?
All members of one kind of organism that in an area.
What is a population?
Imagine a beautiful live oak tree. The role of this tree in an ecosystem is to provide ____________ and __________ for ________________.
To provide food and habitats for other living things in the ecosystem.
(also manage soil erosion, help with air quality, and temperature control by providing shade)