Consumers, Producers and Decomposers
Factors in an Ecosystem
Consumers, Producers and Decomposers II
Food Chains and Food Webs
Species, Population, Community, Ecosystem, Oh My!
100
Bacteria, fungi, and mold are examples of this type of organism.
What is a decomposer?
100
A living factor in an ecosystem.
What is a biotic factor?
100
An organism that eats meat and plants.
What is an om onivore?
100
plants<-insects<-lizard<-hawk
The mistake in the food chain above.
What is arrows (energy) are going the wrong way?
100
All of the horses, roses, hawks, maple trees, and chipmunks is a(n) (species, population, community, ecosystem).
(Hint: Think about you, maple trees, squirrels and dogs in Andover).
What is community?
200
The primary consumer in the food chain:
plants->insects->lizard->hawk
What is insects?
200
A non-living factor in an ecosystem?
What is an abiotic factor?
200
An organism that eats only meat.
What is a carnivore?
200
In this food web, if there wasn't any grass, these three organisms would not have food.
What are grasshopper, rabbit and mouse.
200
All of the chipmunks living in my yard is a(n) (species, population, community, ecosystem).
What is population?
300
The secondary consumer in the food chain:
plants->insects->lizard->hawk
What is lizard?
300
A factor in the environment that keeps a population's size smaller than it can be.
What is a limiting factor?
300
An organism that eats only plants.
What is a herbivore?
300
There are (more, less) producers than consumers.
What is more producers than consumers. (Because the tertiary consumers eat the secondary consumers, and the secondary consumers eat the primary consumers.)
300
A certain type of dog: a German Shepherd is a(n) (species, population, community, ecosystem).
What is species?
400
The tertiary consumer in the food chain:
plants->insects->lizard->hawk
What is hawk?
400
The maximum number of individuals of one species that can live in an environment?
What is carrying capacity?
400
(Producers, consumers, decomposers) use the sun to make their own food (autotrophs).
What is producer?
400
The three secondary consumers in this food web.
What are lizard, hawk and snake?
400
The dog is chasing the cat while the cat is trying to catch the bird that is swooping down from the tree in the bright sunlight is a(n) (species, population, community, ecosystem).
What is ecosystem?
500
The producer in the food chain: plants->insects->lizard->hawk
What is plants?
500
The energy in an ecosystem comes from this source.
(The producer needs this to produce).
What is the sun?
500
(Producers, consumers, decomposers) get energy by eating plants or other consumers.
What is consumers?
500
The one tertiary consumer in this food web.
What is hawk?
500
In Ecomuve, the reason why the fish died in the pond.
What is: there was not enough oxygen for the fish to live? (The rain caused the fertilizer to go into the pond from the grass. The fertilizer caused the algae to grow in the pond, using up the oxygen the fish need to live.)