Kinds of Ecosystems
Consumers 101
Food Stuffs
Sample Questions
Miscellaneous! :)
100
Ecosystem of land densely populated with trees.
What is a Forest?
100
A living thing that gets energy by eating other living things.
What is a Consumer?
100
An animal that is hunted, killed and eaten by a predator.
What is prey?
100
Pick the organism that is a consumer: oak tree, rosebush, prairie dog, or tomato plant.
What is a Prairie Dog?
100
Which of these are NOT a biotic factor: algae, elodea, water, snail
What is water?
200
Ecosystems with fertile soil covered by tall grasses and few trees.
What is Grassland?
200
Consumers that eat only or mostly plants.
What is a Herbivore?
200
A living thing that makes its own food with energy from the sun.
What is a Producer?
200
Which of these is a living part of both grassland and forest ecosystems: soil, pine tree, shrub, or rocks
What is a Shrub?
200
A corn plant's leaves release water vapor into the air. This is an example of ________.
What is Transpiration?
300
A treeless biome between the icecap and the tree line of the arctic regions; has permanently frozen subsoil
What is tundra?
300
Consumers that eat only or mostly animals.
What is a Carnivore?
300
A model that shows the path of energy as it flows from one living thing to the next.
What is a Food Chain?
300
Which organism is the best example of a consumer: algae, fungus, raccoon, or pine tree
What is a Raccoon?
300
This material conducts thermal energy the best. (metal, glass, wood, plastic)
What is Metal?
400
A biome with lots of rainfall, sunlight, high temperatures, and trees.
What is Tropical Rainforest?
400
Consumers that eat both plants and animals.
What is an Omnivore?
400
In an ecosystem where several food chains connect to form a _____ _______.
What is a Food Web?
400
Which organism most likely lives in a grassland ecosystem: trout, bison, bear, or crab
What is a Bison?
400
This weather will result from a cold front approaching in February.
What is a Snowstorm?
500
A biome with trees that lose their leaves each fall
What is Deciduous Forest?
500
A living thing that gets energy by breaking down wastes and dead plants and animals.
What is a Decomposer?
500
A diagram that shows how the amount of energy left for consumers changes as the energy moves through a food chain or web.
What is an Energy Pyramid?
500
A mouse eats green sprouts. This is an example of a ________ eating a _______.
What is a Consumer and Producer?
500
Energy warms water on the surface of the Atlantic Ocean. Some water moves to the atmosphere. The source of the energy is ____________.
What is the sun?