Ecosystems 1
The natural home, or environment, for a plant or animal.
What is a habitat?
There are 2000 of these per minute on Earth.
What are thunderstorms?
A biological community for interacting organisms.
What is an ecosystem?
The only planet that spins clockwise.
What is Venus?
The non-living things in an ecosystem.
What are abiotic factors?
What are biotic factors?
These are five times hotter than the sun.
What are lightning bolts?
Living things that make their own food.
What are producers?
This Toronto Blue Jay hit the World Series winning home run in 1993.
Who is Joe Carter?
A type of diagram which shows how energy is transferred in an ecosystem.
What is a food chain, or food web?
A living thing which is brought to a new habitat, adapts, and reproduces quickly. Often times they cause damage to the ecosystem.
What is an invasive species?
These talented jumpers are incapable of walking backwards.
What are kangaroos?
Living things that do not make their own food.
What are consumers?
This country has more sheep than people.
What is New Zealand?
A series of changes in an ecosystem over time.
What is succession?
The maximum population that an ecosystem can support.
What is carrying capacity?
Some of this type of bird weigh less than a penny.
What are hummingbirds?
Living things that get their energy by breaking down dead plants and animals.
What are decomposers?
This country has the third largest land mass in the world.
What is China?
Any type of plant or animal which is in danger of disappearing forever.
What is an endangered species?
A measure of the total mass of living things in an ecosystem.
What is biomass?
Which NHL team has had a woman play goalie for them?
Who are the Tampa Bay Lightning?
The variety of life in a habitat or ecosystem.
What is biodiversity?
This is the smallest country in the world.
What is Vatican City?
The state of equilibrium, or balance within an ecosystem.
What is ecological balance?