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Vocabulary
Energy Levels
Food Chains
Miscellaneous
100
The study of how living things interact with each other and their environment.
Ecology
100
Name 1 of the labels on the energy pyramid.
Answers may vary: Producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer, tertiary consumer
100
A series of organisms that are dependent on the next for food is called a..
Food chain
100
An organism that gets its energy by feeding on dead organisms and the wastes of living organisms.
Decomposer
200
A consumer that eats only plants is called a..
Herbivore
200
What level of the energy pyramid has the most energy?
Producer (the bottom of the pyramid)
200
Why are prey and predator important to keeping an ecosystem thriving?
It prevents organisms from overpopulating or becoming extinct.
200
What four characteristics make up a habitat?
Food, water, shelter, space
300
A consumer that eats only animals is called...
Carnivore
300
At each level, there is (less/more) energy available than the previous level.
Less
300
What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?
A food web is multiple food chains.
300
Humans breathe in ____________ and breathe out _________.
-Oxygen -Carbon dioxide
400
A consumer that eats both plants and animals is called an
Omnivore
400
You will never see the arrows on a food web going _______ because the energy levels are going up. The flow of energy goes up.
Down
400
What are the four types of consumers?
Carnivore, herbivore, omnivore, dentrivore
400
Give two examples of abiotic factors
Air, water, rocks, dirt
500
What is a limiting factor? Give an example.
Anything that stops a population from growing. Examples: space, food, water
500
Name the labels of the energy pyramid in order from most energy to least energy.
Producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer, tertiary consumer
500
In the forest, the population of wolves is decreasing. They feast on rabbits and are afraid of mountain lions. What two side effects could occur while the population of wolves decreases?
The rabbits will overpopulate and the mountain lions will die out.
500
List the following words in order according to their size: biosphere, population, community, organisms, ecosystem
organisms, population, community, ecosystem, biosphere