Ecosystems 1
Ecosystems 2
Ecosystems 3
Ecosystems 4
Organisms
Hodge Podge
100
something that eats something else for food
What is a consumer?
100
The parts of a habitat that are or were once alive and that interact with an organism
What is biotic factors?
100
any animal that feeds mainly on plants; plant-eater
What is a herbivore?
100
A gorilla, hog, raccoon, human are examples of .....
What are Omnivores?
100
The arrows in a food chain and food web represent....
What is the flow of energy?
100
Many of the same species is a...
What is a population?
200
Animals ____________ for food, water, territory, and mates.
What is a competition?
200
What happens when you go down the food pyramid
The energy level goes up
200
Plants use this process to turn light into chemical energy
What is photosynthesis
200
the flow of energy from a producer to one or more consumers. (ie: linked together by their feeding relationships)
What is a food chain?
200
The terrarium is a closed system because _________ cannot go in or out.
what is matter?
200
The following picture shows a prickly pear, which has spiny, flat joints and thick, rounded stems that store water.
To which of the following types of environments is a prickly pear best suited?
What is the desert?
300
________ and _________ both use oxygen to breakdown food during cellular respiration.
What is consumers, and producers?
300
Any living thing that feeds on the waste of dead bodies of other living things.
What is a decomposer?
300
An organism that eats meat
What is a Carnivore
300
Condensation
What is gas changing to a liquid?
300
__________ take in carbon dioxide gas from the air during photosynthesi.
What is producers?
300
Which of the following is the main feature of the environment to which the plants shown in the figure have adapted?
What is the lack of water?
400
the living and nonliving things and the ways they interact in an environment (ex: redwood forest, swamp, Mojave Desert)
What is an ecosystem?
400
___________ is the process of changing free into a usable from of nitrogen.
What is nitrogen fixation?
400
__________, __________, and _________, are the three processes of the water cycle.
What is evaporation, condensation, and precipitation?
400
Vulture is eating a dead animal it is a
What is a scavenger
400
In the a food web the mushroom and bacteria are....
What are decomposers?
400
Environmental changes happen all the time. Some of these changes are easy to spot. For example, the figure below shows a sign that you might see while riding along a road in many places.
What can you conclude about environmental changes after seeing this sign?
Humans can destroy habitats.
500
___________ then use the nitrogen to make proteins and other complex compounds. When animals eat the plants, the nitrogen is then transferred to their bodies. When these organisms die, the nitrogen is broken down by _________ and returned to the air by bacteria.
What are plants and fungi?
500
What does a food web show
How animals rely on each other in an environment to live.
500
Fungi are on the food chain and they are responsible for ________________
What is breaking down decaying materils
500
On the pyramid what is the organism that eats the producer called
What are primary consumers?
500
All the populations living in one place ?
What is Community?
500
Air, water, and the Sun are all ......
What are nonliving components in a forest ecosystem?
600
A forest ecosystem has different levels of organization. Arrange the levels of organization of the ecosystem in order so the smallest level with the fewest living things is on the top.
What is organisms, population, community, ecosystem?
600
Nitrogen that exists in the air is fixed by___________ in root nodules. This allows it to exist in the soil.
What is bacteria?
600
All energy flow flows in this.
What is a food or web pyramid?
600
Jim is a long-distance runner. After one of his workouts, drenched in sweat, he headed back to his house to eat lunch. After lunch he noticed that he was completely dry. Which of the following terms explains the part of the water cycle that Jim experienced between the end of his run and after lunch?
What is evaporation?
600
Groundhogs inhabiting a meadow environment drink water and rely on plants, including clover, for food. Which of the following terms describe both the water and the clover that the groundhogs consume?
What is limiting factors and resources?
600
The following picture shows a wetland and the plants that grow there.
Which of the following conditions do the plants shown have to cope with?
What is 'wet soil?'
700
Limiting factors cause the sizes of populations to __________ or to __________.
What is stop increasing, or to decrease?
700
Look at the plants in the picture below.
Which abiotic factor most likely controls where the plants in this environment live?
- air
- birds
- shade
- soil
700
What part of an ecosystem are a swarm of bees?
What is a population?
700
According to the __________ , there is a fixed amount of nitrogen on Earth.
What is Law of Conservation of Mass?
700
Wildfires can spread quickly when there are many things that can burn, One way to limit wild fires is to...
Firefighters do 'controlled burn to get rid of the small plants since they make extra "fuel" that can burn.
700
Can overhunting of animals within an ecosystem have an impact on the ecosystem? Why?
Yes, overhunting of the animals could cause the other consumers to find a new place to live or they could die without their food source.