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Energy
Parts of Ecosystems
Organisms
Decomposition
Miscellaneous
100
The Sun
What is the main energy source for life on Earth
100
Ecosystem
What do we call all the living and nonliving parts of an environment
100
An organism that gets its energy from eating plants and animals.
What is a consumer?
100
Organisms that live and grow by breaking down the waste and remains of dead plants and animals to obtain nutrients.
What is the definition of a decomposer?
100
A food chain
What is it called when organisms transfer their energy by eating and being eaten?
200
Food chain
What is energy flow moving in one direction?
200
Habitat
What is an area or place where an organism lives
200
Herbivore
What is a consumer that eats only plants?
200
Choice of fungi, bacteria, mushrooms, and worms.
What are two examples of decomposers.
200
Prey and Predator.
What is it called when you are food for another consumer? What is it called when you are consuming another organism for energy?
300
Producers, consumers, and decomposers
What are the three roles in different ecosystems?
300
Niche
What is the role or job of a specific organism?
300
Omnivore Both
What is an organism that eats both plants and animals? Name it and tell me what the prefix "omni" means.
300
All organisms grow, die, decay and new organisms are being produced. Nutrients are released into the air, water, and soil during decomposition/decay.
What is the process of decay?
300
A system of overlapping food chains is called a food web. The same food source can be part of more than 1 food chain.
What is different about a food chain and food web?
400
Producers
After the sun, where does most energy come from? Give an example
400
A population is all the members of one species whereas a community is all the different populations that interact within an area.
What is the difference between a population of an area and a community of an area?
400
Organism that eats other animals. A lion is an example. "Carne" means meat.
What is a carnivore? Give an example and tell me what the Spanish word "carne" means?
400
Without decomposition, the planet would be cluttered with dead bodies, plants, animals, and litter. Earth would be uninhabitable.
Why is the decaying process important in our lives?
400
Energy flow in a food chain is in one direction. the flow of energy branches out in many direction in a food web.
How is the flow of energy different in a food chain and food web?
500
Nutritious foods we eat such as protein, carbohydrates, calcium, minerals/vitamins. Some fats, in moderation, are needed for smooth skin, shiny hairs, and cell repair.
How do humans get the energy they need to survive? Given some examples
500
Natural disasters (floods, hurricanes, storms, wildfires) could destroy the vegetation (plants) causing the herbivores to be affected. Habitat destruction will affect too much, or too little of specific prey/predator relationships. Problems caused by humans include polluting, littering, overfishing, and over hunting.
What would cause the population of animals to increase or decrease in a population? Give examples of natural and human actions.
500
A scavenger feeds off dead plants and animals. Same both plants and animals. Different carnivores eat animals that are alive. Turkey vulture is an example.
What makes a scavenger the same and different from an omnivore? Given an example if a scavenger.
500
A consumer that eats algae. It is a herbivore.
What is zooplakton and what does it eat? Is it a herbivore, omnivore, or carnivore
500
Any consumer who relies on the snail for energy would be affected as well as what the snail eats. The algae population would increase and create a problem. The population of the animals that eat the snail would decrease, and any other animal that depends on the snail would be affected. Habitats would shrink.
What would happen if a snail were taken out of a food web? Be very specific and list the animals that would be affected