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Types of
Consumers & Producers
Population, Community, & Ecosystems
Food Chains &
Webs
100
The role of an organism in its habitat.
What is niche?
100
The largest part of the food chain.
What are producers?
100
Organisms that eat only meat.
What is a carnivore?
100

A system made up of living and non-living things and their environment.

What is an ecosystem?

100

What role of organisms are always found on the bottom of the food chain?

What are the producers?

200

A place that meets an organisms basic needs.

What is a habitat?

200

A living thing, plant or animal.

What is an organisms?

200
Organisms that eats plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
200

All of the living organisms in an ecosystem.

What is a community?

200

A food web shows how a group of _____________ are linked together.

food chains

300

Helps explain relationships and organizes groups.

What is classification?

300
A diagram that shows how different food chains are connected to one another or overlap.
What is a food web?
300
Organisms that eat only plants.
What is a herbivore?
300

A group of the same species living in the same place at the same time.

What is a population?

300

What do the arrows in the food chain represent?

The passing of energy from one organism to another

400
All of the living and nonliving things surrounding an organism?
What is an environment?
400

Recycle dead organisms into chemical nutrients used in soil, air, and water


What is a decomposer?

400
The organism that must eat other living things to survive.
What is a consumer?
400

A pack of wolves are an example of a.....

What is a population?

400

How many food chains are in the following food web?


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500

The tool used to classify organisms based on similarities and differences in physical characteristics.

What is a dichotomous key?

500
The source of energy for all living things.
What is the sun?
500

A living organism that makes its own food.

What is a producer?

500

Tiger shark, clown fish, octopus, and lobsters are an example of a...

What is a community?

500

In the food chain Sun → Grass → Zebra → Lion, what would likely happen to the lion if the zebra population decreased?

The lion population would likely decrease.