The role that a living thing has in its habitat is known as this.
What is the niche?
100
Which is an abiotic factor in an ecosystem? A) a tree B) a herd of deer C) the temperature D) all the microorganisms
What is (C) the temperature.
100
What ecosystem does a fish live in
A fish lives in a water ecosystem!
200
Provide a missing link in the following wetland food chain: cattail, caterpillar, ______, water snake
What is a frog.
200
Which of the following statements describes an animal fulfilling its niche? A) having strong shoulder muscles to support its long neck. B) eating the tops of acacia trees C) having prehensile tongues to reach the branches of tall trees.
What is eating the tops of acacia trees?
200
Which is an example of a community? A) all the rabbits in a forest B) the air and water in a forest C) all the microorganisms in a pond D) all the living organisms in a forest
What is (D) all the living organisms in a forest.
200
Where would you find primary succession?
What is where nothing has lived there before
200
Warming of the earth's atomsphere because of increase in the concentration of one or more greenhouse gas
What is global warming
300
These types of organisms that break down dead plant and animal matter into simpler compounds.
What are decomposers
300
Which statement best describes a bald eagle using its natural resources to survive? A) performing a special courtship dance in the air B) perching high in trees to spot prey C) having keen eyesight in order to spot threats from far away.
What is perching high in trees to spot prey?
300
Where do you find mutualism
What is EVERYWHERE?
300
released by fossil fuel burning, deforestation, and plant burning
What is carbon dioxide
400
These are organisms that get their energy by eating other organisms.
What are consumers.
400
Which statement best describes how a rattlesnake uses its natural resources to survive? A) giving birth to live young B) striking its prey with poisonous venom C) blending in with its surrounding to hide from prey
What is blending in with its surrounding to hide from prey?
400
Which is NOT a population of an ecosystem? A) all the geese swimming on a pond B) all the fish, turtles, and frogs in a pond C) all the deer in a forest D) all the trees in a forest
What is (B) all the fish, turtles, and frogs in a pond.
400
The part of earth that supports life
What is the biosphere.
400
Effects of global warming on agriculture
What is shift in food growing area change crop yield increase irrigation demands increase pests, crop disease and weeds
500
Scientists use this word to describe a particular environment and all the living things that are supported by it.
What is an ecosystem?
500
Which statement best describes an anteater's niche? A) controlling the population of ants and termites B) using its long snout as a snorkel when it swims C) walking on its fists to keep its claws sharp
What is (A) controlling the population of ants and termites?
500
Name five important abiotic factors that are present in all ecosystems.
What are Sunlight, water, air, temperature, soil
500
The study of the interactions that take place among organism and their environment
What is ecology?
500
*releases by rice paddies, gut of cattle and termites, landfills * releases by bogs and wetlands, and melting glaiers and perma frost