A food chain passes ________ from one living thing to another.
What is energy
100
Food webs are made from _________ __________ that overlap
What is food chains
100
make a food chain with the following:
-mouse
-snake
-seeds
-hawk
What is seeds - mouse - snake - hawk
200
animals that need to eat to live are called
What is consumers
200
Animals that eat ONLY other animals
What are carnivores
200
List two examples of human activity that negatively affects ecosystems.
What is:
- Cutting down trees - Introducing new animals
- Hunting animals - Pollution
200
All the living things in an area make up a ____________
What is a community
200
Something that shows how ALL the animals in a COMMUNITY get their energy (food)
What is a food web
300
All living things need food to give you_____________?
What is energy
300
Two part question:
1. Animals that eat BOTH plants and animals
2. List two examples
1. What are omnivores
2. Humans and bears
300
The thing that eats the producer is called the ___________
What is consumer
300
What are all the members of one specific type of species called?
What is a population
300
The top level of a food chain is reserved for _____________ consumers.
What is quaternary
400
Plants store energy in what 3 places?
What is roots, stems, and leaves
400
A carnivore that hunts other animals
What is a predator
400
A consumer may be a ___________, a __________, or a ___________
What is an omnivore, an herbivore, or a carnivore
400
A food web is like a spider web, all things are connected...What happens when a part of it is pulled out or broken?
It becomes imbalanced
400
Two part question:
1. What breaks down dead plants and animals into nutrients and then releases those nutrients into the soil?
2. Is it a producer or consumer?
1. What is a decomposer
2. What is a consumer
500
Two part question:
1. ________ factors are all the the living things in an ecosystem.
2. ________ factors are all the non-living things in an ecosystem.
1. What is biotic
2. What is abiotic
500
An animal that a predator hunts is called
What is prey
500
All green plants (producers) get their energy from the ____
What is sun
500
What are four abiotic factors in an ecosystem?
What is:
Sunlight Air Temperature Water Rocks Soil
500
What do all of these living things have in common?
deer, rabbit, squirrel