What is rocks, weather, sunlight, temperature, etc.?
100
List two biotic factors that affect organisms living in New England.
What are: animals, plants, dead plants, animal waste, etc.? (Multiple answers; all the living organisms that affect other organisms in an ecosystem)
100
Identify the producer in the food web. Explain the reasoning for your answer.
What is the grass because it does photosynthesis?
100
Species
What are: human beings, white-tailed deer, carrion crow, hooded crow, killer whale, etc.? (Multiple possible answers; individuals of the same organism)
200
Producer
What is autotroph? (Make own food using photosynthesis!)
200
Biotic factors
What are decomposers, dead plants, bacteria, etc.?
200
List 2 abiotic factors that affect organisms in New England.
Identify the primary consumer(s) in this food web. Explain the reasoning for your answer.
What are: the mouse, rabbit, and grasshoppers because they eat the producers?
200
Community
What are: animals, plants, decomposers, etc.? (All of the species populations that interact in a location)
300
Consumer
What is heterotroph?
300
Community
What is plants, fish, birds, turtles, frogs, bugs, etc. ? (MUST BE ALL BIOTIC FACTORS)
300
What kind of organisms are bacteria classified as?
What are decomposers?
300
Identify the secondary consumers. Explain the reasoning for you answer.
What are: lizards and snakes?
300
Population
What is all of the owls in my backyard, all of the mice in my yard, humans in Boston, all of the fish in Pomp's Pond, etc.? (Many possible answers; all of the individuals of a species living in the same area)
400
Habitat
What is home?
400
Herbivores
What are deers, cows, sheep, goats, elephants, horses, bears, etc.? (ONLY EAT PLANTS)
400
Draw an energy pyramid with organisms from the food web. Which trophic level in your pyramid has the greatest amount of energy available? Explain why.
What is (answer drawn). The bottom level (grass) has the most energy because they use energy directly from the sun. Energy is lost when other organisms eat it.
400
Identify the top predator in the food web. Explain the reasoning for your answer.
What is the hawk because nothing eats it?
400
Ecosystem
What are: the deer, dirt, mice, owls, plants, rocks, etc.? (Many possible answers; all living and non-living things that interact in a certain area)
500
Niche
What is job?
500
Consumers?
What are: herbivores, omnivores, and carnivores (Get energy by eating other plants or consumers)
500
Describe what would most likely happen to two of the other organisms in the food web if the grasshopper population was suddenly destroyed.
What is the lizards would die because their food source would be gone, the grass population would increase because fewer consumers would be eating it, the hawk population would have to eat more of their other predators, etc.? (Multiple possible answers)
500
Biome
What are: tundra, tropical rainforest, taiga, desert, etc.? (Multiple possible answers; large area characterized by similar climate and organisms)