Vocabulary
Ecosystems
Food Chains and Food Webs
Fossils
Mystery
100
A scientist who studies past life and fossils.
What is a paleontologist.
100
The two things that make up an ecosystem.
What are biotic and abiotic?
100
A series of overlapping food chains.
What is a food web?
100
A preserved organism that is atlas 10,000 years old.
What is a fossil?
100
brown and green
What are mrs. ski's favorite colors?
200
The number of members of a species in an ecosystem.
What is a population.
200
6 main ecosystems of the United states.
What are tundra, desert, wetlands, forest, rainforest, grassland?
200
Things that are being passed along a food chain and food web.
What are energy and matter?
200
The 5 main types of fossils.
What is petrified, carbon, molds and casts, amber, preserved.
200
How plants turn sunlight into energy.
What is Photosynthesis?
300
An organism that breaks down waste.
What is a decomposer.
300
The ground beneath the surface is frozen all year.
What is tundra?
300
The first two things present in a food chain or food web.
What are sun and producers?
300
This type of fossil preserves activities of past organisms.
What is a trace fossil?
300
Another word for energy.
What is ATP, sugar?
400
An organism that survives by eating others.
What is a consumer.
400
This is the home of an organism with in an ecosystem.
What is Habitat?
400
The direction energy flows in a food chain or food web.
What is producers to consumers?
400
This type of fossil preserves original bones but no soft parts.
What is tar, preserved remains.
400
3 examples of hard parts, and 3 soft parts.
What is mrs ski says?
500
An environment where living and non-living things interact.
What is an ecosystem.
500
Three resources organisms compete over in an ecosystem.
What is water, space, mates, food.
500
What would happen if you removed part of the food web?
What is mrs. ski's judgement.
500
What might a fish fossil in the desert tell a paleontologist?
What is how Earth's environment has changed?
500
These are more likely to be preserved as fossils.
What are hard parts?