Predator or Prey
I am the animal that gets eaten.
What is a prey?
I am all of the living things in an ecosystem.
What is a community?
Mushrooms, worms, termites, and bacteria are all this part of a food chain.
What are decomposers?
This is a an animal that feeds on carrion(dead plant material) or trash and refuse.
What is a scavenger?
What are birds?
What are omnivores? They eat seeds, berries, worms, bugs...
I am the consumer that eats another animal.
What is the predator?
I am all of the living and nonliving things in an environment.
What is an ecosystem?
This is the series of steps that shows how the organisms in a certain area are related to each other by the food that they eat.
What is a food chain?
This is the driving force behind every food chain. Without this, no producers would be able to survive in an ecosystem.
What is the Sun?
What are sharks?
What are carnivores? They eat only meat (other fish)
I am the consumer that eats only plants.
What is an herbivore?
This is all of just one type of organism in an ecosystem. (ex: all the ladybugs in an area)
What is a population?
This is a system of many interlocking and interdependent food chains.
What is a food chain?
Is a rabbit a carnivore, omnivore, or herbivore?
What is an herbivore?
A berry bush, grass, leaves
What are producers?
I am the consumer that eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
This is the largest part of any food chain. These produce their own energy in their leaves.
What are producers?
When an ecosystem is unable to support the existing wildlife because there are too many of a given species.
What is overpopulation?
Starting with the producers, then consumers, and ending with decomposers... what would be a food chain that could exist in the woods of north Georgia?
What is...
EX: a fern(plant), a rabbit(herbivore), a fox(omnivore), a wolf(carnivore), and finally bacteria or mushrooms or worms(decomposers).
Snakes, mice, turtles
What are consumers? (To consume means to eat things)
I am the type of consumer that eats only other animals or bugs.
What is a carnivore?
This is the name of the process that allows plants to make energy (from the Sun) in their leaves.
What is photosynthesis?
A lumber company comes in to a forested area and begins to cut down all of the trees to make way for a new shopping mall to be built. Describe the effects on the ecosystem in that area.
What is... the animals that lived in the trees (birds, owls, squirrels, etc. will lose their habitats or homes). These animals will either die or they will have to find a new habitat. The entire ecosystem would be impacted. There will be both overpopulations of some animals and a scarcity of other plants and animals.
What is it called when no more of an animal or plant species exist on Earth anymore?
What is extinct?
What is a producer, consumer, and a decomposer that would live in the desert?
What are cactus and sagebrush? (producer)
What are jackrabbits, snakes, lizards? (consumers)
What are termites, bacteria, ants? (decomposers)