Lesson 5/6: Energy in an ecosystem & Cycles in an ecosystem
Short Answer
100
What is all the living and nonliving things in an area?
What is an ecosystem?
100
Which biome has the most species known?
What is the tropical rainforest?
100
How many water biomes are there(that we learned about in the book)? What are the water biomes?
What is there are four water biomes? They are rivers, wetlands, coral reefs, and the deep sea.
100
How do carnivores obtain energy?
What is through eating other animals?
100
Identify three nonliving parts of an ecosystem?
What is light, soil, and temperature?
200
What is a biome?
What is a large ecosystem with generally the same climate and organisms?
200
How many land biomes are there (that we learned about in the book)?
What is six?
200
Give an example of symbiosis, where both animals need to survive off of one another.
What is a fungus and bacteria form a lichen?
200
Where is the greatest amount of energy in an energy pyramid?
What is at the bottom, where the producers are?
200
How do non-living parts impact an ecosystem?
What is it affects the amount of organisms that can survive in ecosystem? Organisms need a place to live where their needs will be met and they can increase their population size based on resources.
300
What is a niche and habitat? How do they affect each other?
Niche: The role that an organism has in a ecosystem.
Habitat: The place where it lives
They affect each other because an animal's niche will affect the habitat in which it lives in.
300
What are the six land Biomes?
What are Tropical Rainforest, Deciduous Forest, Grassland, Taiga, Desert, and Tundra Biome.
300
Creatures that live in the deep ocean need to adapt to what environmental factor?
What is high pressure?
300
What role do decomposers play in an ecosystem?
What is they break down waster and dead matter?
300
Name two ways that wetlands can help an environment?
What is the plants, soil, and microorganisms act as filters, cleaning the water as it flows through them? Salt marshes also act as a buffer, protecting inland areas from ocean waves.
400
What is population? What determines the size of population?
Population is the group of organisms of one species that live in an area. Population is affected by the resources that can be found in the area. The less resources to survive off of, the smaller population. The more resources, the greater the population can be.
400
Which biome can be best described as an evergreen forest in a cold, dry location?
What is a Taiga?
400
Corals have a symbolic relationship with the plant-like algae that grow inside them. How do the algae benefit from the corals?
What is the algae help the corals make a hard outside coating?
400
When decomposers break down the remains of dead organisms, what do they make that can be used by plants?
What is nitrogen compounds?
400
What is a food web?
What is diagram that shows how animals survive based on other animals/plants in their ecosystem that they rely on.
500
What is community?
What is a group of organisms of one species that live in an area at the same time?
500
What factors limit the number of organisms that can live in any ecosystem?
What is the amount of food, water, space, or shelter?
500
Why do animals compete?
What is for food, shelter, resources, and mates.
500
What are the two most abundant gases in the Earth's atmosphere?
What are nitrogen and oxygen?
500
Give an example of a food chain.
Example: Sun provides energy/food to the plant (producer); which then the plant will provide nutrients to a Rabbit (consumer/herbivore). The rabbit could then be consumed by a snake (consumer/carnivore) to provide nutrients and allow it to survive.