Ecosystem Vocabulary
Niches
Food Chains and Webs
Nutrient Cycles
Surprise
100
Choose the abiotic factor:
Sticks, leaves, dirt
Dirt
100
Plants do photosynthesis, getting energy from the sun. Which two niche terms could be used to describe them?
Producer and Autotroph
100
In this food chain, which organism is the producer?
Grass (plant)
100
When water goes from a liquid to a gas, it is called ______________ and when water goes from a gas to a liquid, it is called ________________.
Evaporation / Condensation
100
What is the term for the study of how living things interact with each other and the environment?
Ecology
200
Choose the biotic factor:
Pebbles, seeds, water
Seeds (comes from plants)
200
Identify all the heterotrophs:
Trees, Insects, Fungi, Grass, Squirrels
Insects, Fungi, and Squirrels
200
Which organism is the tertiary consumer?
Snake
200
During the water cycle, when liquid water goes up through the roots of a plant and is released as a gas from the leaves, this is called _______________.
Transpiration
200
What are the organic and inorganic forms of carbon in the carbon cycle?
Organic: Glucose
Inorganic: Carbon Dioxide
300
"All of the living and non-living factors in an area" is the correct definition for which vocabulary word?
Ecosystem
300
A bear consumes berries and fish. Which niche term describes its diet?
Omnivore
300
If the grass starts out with 1570 kcal of energy, how much energy makes it up to the eagle?
0.1570 kcal
300
The TWO main parts of the carbon cycle, in which plants are capable of both, are...
Photosynthesis and Respiration
300
According to the food chain, which two levels of consumer would the Titmouse be considered?
Primary and Tertiary
400
What is the correct order of terms, from smallest to largest:
Community, Ecosystem, Population
Population, Community, Ecosystem
400
Snow foxes hunt for arctic hares. Identify the predator and the prey.
Predator: Snow Foxes
Prey: Arctic Hare
400
Between two trophic levels, how much energy is LOST as heat?
90%
400
Another way that carbon is released as carbon dioxide in the air is through the burning of fossil fuels. The vocabulary term for burning of fuels is...
Combustion
400
Does the Buzzard get more energy from eating the rabbit or the snake?
The Rabbit
500
What is the term for all the water in an ecosystem?
Hydropshere
500
Mushrooms are decomposers. As a result, they are (autotrophs/heterotrophs)?
Heterotrophs
500
In this food web, the fox and the owl are both considered ______________ consumers.
Secondary
500
Out of all the processes in the carbon cycle, which one is the only one that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere?
Photosynthesis
500
In this food chain, if the frogs were to go extinct, how would that affect all the other populations?
Snakes decrease due to loss of food source.
Eagles decrease due to loss of food source.
Grasshoppers increase due to loss of predator.
Grass decreases due to too many grasshoppers.