Ecosystems 1
A community of both living (biotic) and nonliving (abiotic) organisms interacting together.
Ecosystem
This ecosystem is cold all year long and has 24 hours of darkness during the winter months. The ground is frozen all year round and very few plants can grow there. Polar bears and arctic hare live here.
Tundra
nonliving things in an environment
abiotic
Cooler temperatures, loss of food sources
A remnant, impression, or trace of an animal or plant from a past geologic age that has been preserved in the earth's crust.
Fossil
Large body of salt water including oceans and seas. Coral reefs, dolphins and whales, seaweed can be found there.
Marine
Hot, humid and rainy all year. There are a ton of different plants and animals in this ecosystem including the poison dart frog and the jaguar.
Rainforest
rock, snake skin, water, sunlight
snake skin
What do plants need in order to make their own food?
Sunlight.
Flat teeth on a fossil indicate it probably ate....
plants.
An environment that is typically hot all year long with very little water. Plants and animals adapt to conserve water. Cactus and rattlesnakes live here.
Desert
An ecosystem in southern Florida that is covered by slow moving water. Warm all year round. Alligators and crocodiles live here.
Everglades
Which item on this list is ABIOTIC?
bacteria, palm tree, sunlight, flamingo
sunlight
Currently Ohio's ecosystem is a deciduous forest. What is an ecosystem from Ohio's past and what proof do you have that this ecosystem was here?
Tropical swamp/ocean - fish fossils
Tundra - glacial grooves, wooly mammoth fossils
Sharp teeth on a fossil indicate it probably ate....
meat
Has four seasons (spring, summer, autumn, winter). Trees lose their leaves in the fall. Deer, cardinals, and squirrels live here.
Deciduous Forest
The winter in this ecosystem is very cold winter and the summer doesn't get much warmer. There are forests here, but the trees are mostly pine trees. Animals like moose, elk and brown bears live here.
Taiga
answers may vary, but all should be LIVING or from a LIVING creature
In the early 1800s, there were large populations of black bears, wolves, bobcats and bison living in Ohio. Name TWO things that caused these populations to decrease.
Answers could be:
*Settlers killing animals out of fear/safety
*Settlers clearing land and destroying habitats
*No hunting laws to regulate the system
Fish fossils in the desert indicate that at one time the place was....
covered in water
Grassland with warm temperatures year round. Located in Africa. Zebras and lions live here.
Savanna
Grassland found in North America. Includes the Great Plains. Long, tall grass with few trees. Buffalo, prairie dogs and rabbits live here.
Prairie
Name two ABIOTIC things found in a desert.
Answers may vary but should all be NONLIVING
The Great Black Swamp near Toledo was drained in the late 1800s. List one specific change that would've happened to the ecosystem because of that event.
Answers will vary but may included things like: all the swamplike animals would've died or had to move; new animals like raccoons and rabbits would've moved in to the area
A fossil in the bottom layer of the earth is _______ than a fossil the top layer of the earth.
older