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What is a model that shows ONE set of feeding relationships among living things?
Food Chain
Which category does a squirrel go in?:
Abiotic or Biotic?
Biotic
What always comes first in a food chain?
The sun
What are the main three types of consumers?
Herbivores, Carnivores, and Omnivores
What is the name of the ecosystem with a large naturally occurring area of land with largely evergreen forest vegetation found in northern sections of the Northern Hemisphere?
Taiga
What is the last organism in the food chain?
Decomposers
Which category does a rock in?:
Abiotic or Biotic
Abiotic
What is a predator?
An animal that hunts and eats another animal.
What consumer eats ONLY plants?
Herbivore
What is the name for an extremely cold located near the North and South Poles and receives very little precipitation and has no trees?
Tundra
What is the name of the model that shows all the things that an animal eats or is eaten by, and is a map of overlapping food chains?
Food Web
Which category is a snowflake in?
Abiotic or Biotic
Abiotic
What is the word to describe an animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal?
Prey
What consumer ONLY eats other animals?
Carnivore
What is the name for ecosystem that has very little percipitation and very little vegetation?
Desert
What comes after the sun in a food chain?
Producers
Which category does a spruce tree in?
Abiotic or Biotic?
Biotic
What do you call the role an animal plays in its ecosystem?
Niche
What consumer eats both plants AND animals?
Omnivore
What is the name for an ecosystem when fresh river water mixes in with salty ocean water?
Estuary
How does energy transfer as it flows through the food chain?
The arrows in a food chain show where the energy has come from and where the energy is now going to.
Which category does a dead animal/bug in?
Abiotic or Biotic
Biotic
Explanation: Some people think that if an organism is no longer alive, it cannot be considered biotic. However, if something used to be alive, or was part of a living organism (such as a bone, or hair), it is still considered biotic.
What does a consumer mean?
An organism that eats other living things to get energy; an organism that does not produce its own food.
How do the three consumers depend on each other for survival?
Secondary consumers eat the herbivores. Tertiary consumers eat secondary consumers. ( There may be more levels of consumers before a chain finally reaches its top predator. Top predators, also called apex predators, eat other consumers. )