vocabulary
All the living and non living things in an area.
What is Ecosystem?
The ultimate source of energy in all food chains.
What is the sun?
Define an abiotic factor.
A non-living factor affecting ecosystems. (Temperature, Sunlight, Wind, Soil Type, etc)
Which level of an energy pyramid gets the most energy from the sun?
What are Producers
All the birds in your backyard are considered what vocabulary word?
What is a population?
An animal that feeds only on plants.
What is an herbivore?
Look at the food web. Name all the primary consumers.
What is the bird/grasshopper/mouse/rabbit?
True of False...biotic factors do not depend on abiotic factors
False!
They sure do...sunlight is needed for plants to grow!
What percent of heat is lost as it moves up the pyramid?
What is 10%
What are some examples of decomposers?
What are bacteria, worms, ants, fungi?
A large ecosystem of similar plant, animal, soil and climate around the world.
Biome
Food chains end with _____________
(even if it isn't shown)
what are decomposers?
The biome we live in is the:
Deciduous Forest
An energy pyramid is shaped like a pyramid...why?
there are less predators at the top and more producers at the bottom
What do the arrows mean in a food chain?
What is the path of energy?
The role an organism has in an ecosystem.
What is a niche?
What is the owl and the bird?
Can a consumer be an abiotic factor?
NO-they are alive.
Describe an energy pyramid that only has two levels.
Humans and plants.
An animal will only _______ in an environment where it's needs are being met.
What is survive?
What is the difference between fauna and flora?
fauna=animals
flora=plants
What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?
Food webs show a realistic picture of all that organisms eat & a food chain only shows one path of energy.
Give five examples of an abiotic factor.
1) Soil Type
2) Temperature
3) Climate
4)Water
5)Wind
When organisms move, sleep, eat and grow.
The name of the organ where owls have their food separated into useful and not useful materials.
What is the gizzard?