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Vocabulary
Food Chain/Food Web
Miscellaneous
Changes
100
Consumers that eat ONLY animals.
What are carnivores
100
The main energy source for life on Earth.
What is sunlight
100
Consumers that eat BOTH plants and animals
What are omnivores
100
Choose what is most likely to happen if most of a population of animals dies of disease. - The food web will stop - The decomposers will die - The food web will change - The producers will also get a disease
What is the food web will change
200
The specific role or job an organism has in its habitat.
What is a niche
200
Choose which is a producer: - deer - grass - hawk - worm
What is grass
200
The difference between a food chain and a food web.
What is a food chain goes in only one direction, showing how organisms transfer energy. A food web is a system of many food chains.
200
Choose which adaptation woul dbe most useful to an animal whose niche is eating nectar from plants. - fins - wings - fast legs - short beak
What is wings
300
All the members of ONE species that live within an area of an ecosystem.
What is a population
300
Choose the items that animals need that travel through a food chain. - herbivores - ecosystems - air and sunshine - nutrients and minerals
What are nutrients and minerals
300
Organisms that digest the waste and remains of dead plants and animals.
What are decomposers
300
Choose what is the BEST explanation for a decrease in a population of birds in a community. - the amount of food decreases - the amount of space increases - the amount of water increases - the amount of air stays the same
What is the amount of food decreases
400
All the living and nonliving things in an environment and the many ways they interact.
What is an ecosystem
400
The place of the freshwater snail in the swamp food chain. (Hint: Pg. 92) It eats ____________ and is eaten by ____________.
What is eats algae and is eaten by blue herons/sandhill cranes.
400
The difference between a niche and a habitat.
What is a niche is the animal's job or role in the ecosystem and the habitat is where the animal lives
400
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500
Different populations that interact with each other in the same area.
What is a community
500
Choose the role of zooplankton in a food web. - protist - producer - consumer - decomposer
What is a consumer
500
Consumers that eat ONLY plants
What are herbivores
500
Choose how decaying organisms in a swamp help create the next generation of organisms. - The decaying organisms create a new habitat - The decaying organisms create bacteria and fungi. - The decaying organisms release oxygen into the air. - The decaying organisms put minerals back into the soil.
What is the decaying organisms put minerals back into the soil