Where does the howler monkey spend most of its time?
What is in the canopies or high up in the trees.
100
In a rain forest, howler monkeys and leaf cutter ants are part of the same what?
What is community?
100
Almost all the nutrients in a rain forest are found here.
What is living things?
100
What do plants produce when the carry out photosynthesis?
What is oxygen
200
What part of plants use sugar from the leaves?
What is all parts (roots, stems, branches, etc.)?
200
This type of consumer only eats plants
What is a herbivore
200
An organism that helps break down and decay dead organisms and the wastes of living organisms
What is a decomposer?
200
What kind of effect does the removal of a predator have on the food web?
What is a negative or bad one.
200
What does a food chain begin with?
What is a producer that gets energy from the sun
300
Plants use this to make proteins
What are nitrogen compounds
300
The role a species play in an ecosystem.
What is a niche?
300
What do consumers give off that producers need?
What is carbon dioxide?
400
What anchors a plant into the ground?
What is roots
400
What do consumers make that producers need?
What is carbon dioxide
400
What is a food chain?
What is a food chain is a diagram of how energy and nutrients pass among organisms in an ecosystem
400
What changes nitrogen gas to nitrogen compounds
What is bacteria in the soil or lightening
400
Why does the amount of available energy decrease as you move up the energy pyramid?
What is because each organism uses some energy for its life processes, and some energy is lost as heat
500
List three facts about the tropical rain forest
What is the amount of sunlight is the same everyday.
the temperature is about the same all year round, and there are no short winter days.
500
Name two things producers can not do
What is give off oxygen and create their own energy
500
How does water cycle through the nonliving parts of the ecosystem?
What is it evaporates from the land and oceans and becomes water vapor
500
How does a food chain differ from a food web?
What is a food web shows that one organism might be food for several different organisms
500
What happens to the nutrients inside a living thing when it dies in the rain forest?
What is scavengers eat it, then decomposers break it down, the left-over nutrients go into the soil, and plants reuse the nutrients for their own growth