Biomes
How are the desert and tundra biomes similar?
They both receive little rainfall.
What biome would a prairie dog be found in?
Kudzu is an invasive plant species. If the kudzu starts growing rapidly in a forest biome, what will happen to the squirrel population?
The squirrel population will decrease because the plants that they eat will decrease too.
Here is a food web: sun - grass - grasshopper - spiders - weasels - owls. What would happen if the weasel population decreased?
The number of spiders will increase or The number of owls will decrease.
In the desert food web: cactus - mice - snake - hawk, which organism would be the secondary consumer?
Which plant would be found in a tundra biome?
Moss or lichen
Large ecosystems located in different parts of the world that have their own climate, soil, plants and animals are called
Biomes
Photosynthesis is the process that producers go through to create their own food. True or false?
True
A timber company removed trees from a forest area. The scientist that work for them monitored the owl as they cut down trees. The owl population started at 128 when 1 tree was cut down to 3 after 10 trees were cut down. Draw what you think the graph would look like?
The line would start at the top of the graph, and the line would go down showing the decrease in the population.
Aqu- means?
Water
What is an effect of a limited amount of sunlight reaching the ground of a tropical rain forest?
The plants won't grow on the ground. They will attach to other plants to get higher.
Trees that won't lose their leaves in the winter are called
Coniferous trees
A mushroom, worm, and bacteria are examples of what on a food chain?
Decomposers
Which organisms from this list are herbivores: squirrels, hawks, foxes, rabbits, and owls.
The two would be squirrels and rabbits.
If a duckweed has a small root, what biome would it live in and usually found in the ponds? Saltwater or freshwater?
Freshwater
Prairie dogs are rat-like plant eaters that live in burrows. They usually live in habitats that are grazed by bison where grass is short. Why do they live in an area like this?
They can see the animals that will try to eat them.
It is a variety of species of plants and animals.
A consumer that eats both meat and plants is called a(an)..
Omnivore
This is a food web: cactus - mice - snakes - hawks. If an owl makes its home in this desert biome, what will it most likely eat if it only eats herbivores?
It will eat the mice.
Deciduous trees
This biome's temperates are from -22 degrees to 86 degrees, has rabbits and deers, and has large leafed trees like maple and oaks. What biome is this?
It is the deciduous forest.
This biome's temperature stays around 68 degrees to 77 degrees, has bats, birds, and insects, and flowering plants, bromeliads, and orchids. What biome is this?
This is the rainforest.
This food web starts with the sun - algae - small animals and protists (not an animal, fungi, or bacteria, but a small organism) - cod (fish). What happens if the cod is taken away?
The number of small animals and protists will increase.
In the desert food web: cactus - mice - snake - hawk, what would happen to the hawk in the food web?
The hawk population might decrease because of having to compete for the same food source as the owl.
The second coldest biome is called
Taiga (coniferous forest)