Ecosystems and Biomes
Producers, Consumer, Decomposers...OH MY!
Who Eats Whom?
A Mix Bag
Humans
100
This one abiotic factors can be found in almost every ecosystem. It provides energy to producers, a key component every ecosystem.
What is the sun?
100
This type of organism is responsible for breaking down dead material, kind of like recycling.
What is a decomposer?
100
Animals in an ecosystem survive because of this, features like camouflage and mimicry.
What is an adaptation?
100
This type of consumer eats only meat.
What is a carnivore?
100
Deforestation, or cutting down of forests results in the loss of this.
What is habitat?
200
Dense tree cover known as a canopy makes it difficult for plants to grow on this type of forest floor.
What is a rain forest?
200
This type of organism needs receives energy from living organisms.
What is a consumer?
200
Estuaries have fewer living organisms.
What is a difference between an ocean and an estuary?
200
In the following food chain, name the producer:
grass-mouse-snake-hawk
What is grass?
200
This man made phenomenon is resulting is rising temperature and loss of habitat, especially for arctic animals.
What is global warming or climate change?
300
Little grass, little rainfall, and few trees are just some of the characteristics of this biome.
What is grasslands?
300
This abiotic factor is needed to help decomposers break down material.
What is moisture?
300
True or false: herbivores and carnivores can survive in an ecosystem because they rely on different types of energy sources.
What is true?
300
The arrows in an food chain and food web indicate this
What is the flow of energy?
300
Name three different types of abiotic factors in a forest ecosystem.
Soil, Sunlight, dead leaves and trees, decomposing animals
(Point out that various insects and fungi can coexist in areas where these things exist.)
400
This condition makes estuaries and oceans similar.
What is salt water?
400
If a plant population were to increase, this would happen to the consumer population.
The consumer population would increase.
400
Name one way energy can flow within this food web. (HINT: What is one food chain found within this food web.)
Any acceptable energy flow.
400
Different parts of the ocean support different types and amounts of life because of this.
What is sunlight?
400
If you remove one part of an ecosystem, this is the result.
The entire ecosystem is effected. Animals will leave in search of new food sources.
500
The main difference between these two ecosystems is one is found in temperate climates and one is found in more tropical climates closer to the equator.
What is a deciduous forest and a rain forest?
500
Name an example of a decomposer.
Any decomposer including slugs, worms, bacteria, mushrooms, etc.
500
Most organisms in the ocean live in this part because more sunlight reaches it.
What is shallow ocean waters?
500
A pond ecosystem is most similar to which of the following:
River
Lake
Ocean
What is a lake?
500
Define biotic and abiotic factors
Biotic factors are living and abiotic factors are not