A factor that is living or was once living in an ecosystem.
What is a biotic factor?
100
Animals the eat or consume food for their energy
What is a consumer?
100
A food web or a food chain show the transfer of this
What is energy?
100
This is the rabbit's highest population
What is 140?
100
This would happen to the duck population if there was a disease that wiped out the duckweed.
What is decrease?
200
A factor that is non-living in an ecosystem.
What is an abiotic factor?
200
This organism uses the sun to make it's own food
What is a producer?
200
Producers use the sun, carbon dioxide, and water in this process that is completed using the chlorophyll of their cells.
What is photosynthesis?
200
This is the year that the population of the lynx was the greatest.
What is 1885?
200
This would happen if the osprey population suddenly increased.
What is the trout population would decrease?
300
A giraffe, lion, savannah grass, and and Baobab tree
What are biotic factors?
300
This organism breaks down dead biotic material and returns the nutrients to the soil
What is a decomposer?
300
This is the order of a food chain using the following factors:
giraffe, lion, sun, baobab tree
What is sun to baobab tree to giraffe to lion?
300
This would happen to the rabbit population when the lynx population was low
What is increase?
300
This would happen if pet owners decided to start releasing their pet ferrets into this ecosystem.
What is the trout, tadpole, and duck population might decrease?
400
This organism gets its energy from the prey (dead carcasses) of other consumers
What is a scavenger?
400
This is the order of the energy levels in an energy pyramid starting at the bottom.
What is producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, tertiary consumers?
400
What would happen if the rabbit population was removed from this ecosystem?
What is the lynx population would decrease?
400
Nearby farmers used up all the water in a pond water reserve which unexpectedly killed all fly larva. This is how the decrease in the fly populations would effect the food web.
What is the trout population would decrease?
500
The Tundra
What are both abiotic and biotic factors?
500
This animal hunts and kills for its food
What is a predator?
500
This is the oder of the following organisms on an energy pyramid: channel island fox, golden eagle, black rat, seeds
What is
tertiary consumer - golden eagle
secondary consumer - channel island fox
primary consumer - black rat
producer - seeds
500
These are factors besides the lynx population that could influence the rabbit population
What is other predators, availability of food, natural disasters, water source, pollution, disease, deforestation, etc.
500
This is how a pesticide would affect a tertiary consumer like the muskrat.
What is the muskrat ate a secondary consumer who ate a primary consumer who ate a producer that was sprayed by the pesticide?