Terrestrial Ecosystems
Aquatic Ecosystems
Energy and Food Chains
Effects on Food Chains
Bonus!
100
True or False
Many rain forests are found near the equator.
What is true?
100
What are lakes? How big are they? Give 1 example of what might live in a lake?
What is a large body of water that might have ducks living in them?
100
Energy in ecosystems is provided by what?
What is the sun?
100
Fill in the blank.
______ in an ecosystem ______ each other.
What is organisms and affect?
100
What are the 3 types of terrestrial ecosystems?
What is rainforests, deciduous forests, and grasslands?
200
Are rain forests home to hot and wet, hot and dry, cold and wet, or cold and dry?
What is hot and wet?
200
Name all six of the aquatics ecosystems.
What is lakes, ponds, estuaries, saltwater marshes, oceans, and thermal vents?
200
Are crustaceans producers or consumers?
consumers
200
Give an example of how energy flow through a food chain.
Answers may vary!
Ex: Tree, Termite, Kinkajou, Jaguar
200
What is germination?
300
Is the climate of a deciduous forest temperate, polar or tropical?
What is temperate?
300
What aquatic ecosystem is shown in this picture?What is a estuary?
300
What is the definition of a producer? Give 3 examples of producers.
Answers may vary!
Ex: Producers are organisms that use the Sun's energy to make their own food. Three examples are grass, trees, and algae.
300
Predators keep populations of other animals at the right size. What would happen if their weren't enough predators?
What is the population of the pray would be way too high?
300
What is a thermal vent? What must animals that live in thermal vents be able to do?
Answers may vary!
Ex: In some places under the ocean where the Earth's crust is very thin, very hot water can come out of the holes called hydrothermal vents. Animals that live in thermal vents must be able to stand high temperatures.
400
Is there enough water to support the growth of large trees in grasslands?
What is sometimes along streams or rivers?
400
Where do saltwater marshes receive water daily from?
What is ocean tides?
400
What happens to a consumers population if producers start to dye out? Give 1 examples where this has happened in real life.
Answers may vary!
Ex: The consumers population might start to die out and get smaller. Dino's population died out because producer population died out.
400
Fill in the blank.
A _____ in the number of one kind of _______ will cause a _____ in the number of other kinds of ______.
What is change, organism, change, organisms?
400
What does the word competition mean in science?
Answers may vary!
Ex: When two or more individuals or populations try to use the same limited resource such as food?
500
In grasslands what are the temperatures like? What are the temperatures like in deciduous forests?
What is warm in the summer and cold in the winter in grasslands and deciduous forests?
500
Give 2 examples about how estuaries are valuable resources to humans.
Answers may vary!
Ex: Many of the fish that fishermen catch spend most of their life in estuaries. Also, the ocean water that comes in to an estuary, provides nutrients that sea animals are attracted to. Then, humans can hunt those animals for food.
500
What percentage of the energy produced at each level of the food chain is available to the next one above it?
What is 10%?
500
What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?
Answers may vary!
What is a food web consists of many food chains. A food chain only follows just one path as animals find food. eg: A hawk eats a snake, which has eaten a frog, which has eaten a grasshopper, which has eaten grass. A food web shows the many different paths plants and animals are connected?
500
Can you remember the average rainfall in a rain forest? If you can get close, you get half the points!
What is about 150 cm per year?