Types of Ecosystems
Terminology
Terminology Again!
Ecosystem & Terminology Questions
Challenge
100
A ___________ ecosystems has a lot of ice and snow.
What is a polar ecosystem.
100
A _____________ is a insect or animal that helps a plant make seeds.
What is a pollinator.
100
Two things that are found in ALL ecosystems.
What are living and nonliving things.
100
True or false. A producer is a living thing that eats plants.
What is false.
100
The definition of seed dispersal.
What is when seeds are picked up from the original plant and brought to another location.
200
A _________ ecosystem in the daytime the temperature is very hot. There is little rainfall. The soil is sandy and has few nutrients?
What is a desert ecosystem.
200
A _______________ is everything that surrounds and effects a living thing.
What is an environment.
200
All living organisms, producers and consumers, need this to survive.
What is sunlight.
200
Non-living parts of an ecosystem.
What are soil, water, rocks, shade, sun, and air.
200
Reason why certain plants and animals live in only one ecosystem and not more.
What is they would not be able to adapt to survive in another ecosystem.
300
A ___________ ecosystem has lots of trees and rain.
What is a rainforest ecosystem.
300
A producer.
What is an organism that make its own food.
300
Interdependence
What are two living or living and nonliving things in an ecosystem that work together to provide either food, shelter, or protection.
300
True or false. A consumer makes its own food.
What is false.
400
A ____________ has cold, wet winters and hot, dry summers.
What is a temperate zone.
400
Population
What is all the members of one type of plant or animal.
400
Where a producer gets its energy from.
What is the sun.
400
A plant that is common on a prairie.
What is tall grass.
400
Wind, water, animal's fur, or animal waste.
What are examples of seed dispersal.
500
A _________ ecosystem does not have a lot of shade, has tall grass, less rain than a forest, but has cold winters.
What is a prairie.
500
The process of making more of ones own kind.
What is reproduction.
500
A __________ can only survive in an ecosystem where its needs are met.
What is a living thing.
500
The definition for a temperate zone.
What is a place on earth that has not very hot summers, not very cold winters.
500
Describe the way in which a clown fish and a sea anemone are interdependent.
What is the anemone protecting the clown fish and the clown fish eating the scraps of food off of the anemone's tentacles.