How do they get energy?
This provides energy for all living things.
This is the transfer of energy and nutrient through a community.
What is a food chain?
This is all the organisms of the same species that live in an ecosystem.
What is a population?
This organism keeps the ecosystem clean by eating what has already died.
What is a scavenger?
True or False:
An ecosystem consists of all the living organisms and their environment in a certain section of the earth.
True
What is an animal that hunts and eats other animals?
predators
True or False:
An energy pyramid shows how energy moves through one food chain in an ecosystem.
True
This is all the different species that live in a particular ecosystem.
What is a community?
This organism is a consumer that eat only producers (or plants).
What are herbivores?
This is the nonliving part of an ecosystem.
What is the environment?
What are the animals that a predator hunts called?
Prey
This is what several food chains linked together is called.
What is a food web?
This is each living member of an ecosystem.
What is an individual?
This type of organism eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
True or false:
If you change one part of a food web it will affect other organisms.
True!
These organisms break down dead things and wastes.
What are decomposers?
This organism is what a food chain begins with.
What is a producer?
This is an organism's specific function or job in the ecosystem.
What is a niche?
This is a consumer that eats only other consumers.
What is a carnivore?
Give an example of a large ecosystem and a small ecosystem.
Accept any correct answer. Possible examples are:
Large ecosystem: ocean, rainforest, tundra
Small ecosystem: pond, rotting tree stump, your skin
Organisms that get their energy directly from the sun and change the energy into a form that other organisms can use.
What is a producer?
This occurs whenever two or more organisms are trying to use the same resources.
What is competition?
This is the place where an organism lives.
What is a habitat?
Give an example of each of the following:
Carnivore, Herbivore, and Omnivore
Any correct answer is acceptable:
Could be:
Carnivore: weasels and snakes
Herbivore: rabbits and grasshoppers
Omnivores: racoons and crows
Which of the following does a plant NOT need for photosynthesis:
a. sunlight
b. water
c. oxygen
d. carbon dioxide
c. oxygen