Orangutans
Food Webs
Sharks
Wetlands
Vocab Terms
100

This animal's population decreased because of the lack of vegetation to hide in 

tigers

100

This group of organisms gets energy from ALL OTHER ORGANISMS in the food web because it breaks down nutrients and returns them to the environment 

decomposers

100

The year that it became illegal to hunt seals in MA

1965

100

This wetland is full of spongy peat 

bogs

100

A species that originated and developed in its surrounding area and has adapted to living in that habitat

native species
100

This group of people can apply for customary forest permits

indigenous community 

100

This group of organisms gets energy from the sun

producers

100

Name any 3 sharks that classmates were directed to investigate in the logbook 

Ben, Luke, James, Big Bopper, Scratchy

100

this wetland forms coal over time and has preserved bodies before 

bogs

100

A species that has influence in all trophic levels; they support biodiversity in their ecosystem

keystone species

100

One alternative to monocrop oil palm farming 

diversified farming, customary forest farming, or sustainable oil palm farming 
100

Vocab term for a consumer who does not have natural predators in its environment 

apex predator 
100

The year that the seal population began a steady recovery

1995

100

this type of wetland has 3 subcategories (one is mangrove) 

swamps

100

The breakup of a natural habitat into smaller areas

habitat fragmentation

200

This animal's population increased due to the increase of rats and pigs

snakes 

200

Producers do photosynthesis to convert energy. Consumers do...

cellular respiration 

200

Vocab term to describe the relationship between zooplankton and crustaceans 

competitive (they both eat phytoplankton and have predators in common) 

200

The term for an area of land that all drains to the same body of water 

watershed
200

The different kinds of lifeforms you find in an area

biodiversity

200
The two islands where you could find orangutans 

Borneo and Sumatra

200

Phytoplankton is consumed by zooplankton, which is consumed by a small fish. What is the trophic level of the large fish that consumes the small fish? 

tertiary consumer

200

Name the app that researchers suggest people use to get information about white shark presence 

Sharktivity App 

200
The term for animals who MUST use the vernal pool for part or all of their life cycle
obligate species
200

The interaction between two dissimilar organisms living in close physical association. Competition, mutualism, predation and parasitism are examples of...

Symbiosis