Living/Nonliving
Producer/Consumer/Decomposer
Ecosystems
Biomes
Food Chain/ Web
100
What do you call all living things.
Organism
100
A lion is a
Consumer
100
What is the smallest group in an ecosystem
What is an organism
100
What makes one biome different from another biome?
What is the weather, soil type, and temperature
100
What does every food chain start with?
The sun
200
Which one is Abiotic?
A squirrel, two raccoons, a snake, a rock, a palm tree
What is a rock
200
A mushroom is a
Decomposer
200
Describe a population
What is all of one kind of a species that lives in an ecosystem
200
What biome would be described as dry.
What is the desert
200
Berries -> Rabbit -> Fox ->
What consumer comes after a fox?
300
Which of the following is an example of a Biotic Factor a feather, water, a beetle, rocks, a waterfall
What is a beetle
300
Name two things that are decomposers?
Worm, Mushroom, Bacteria
300
Describe what would make up the community of coral reef
What is clown fish, jelly fish, seaweed, etc.
300
Which biome would be described as aquatic?
What is marine, coral reef, etc.
300
Berries -> Rabbit -> Fox
What would be the cause of an increase in Rabbits in an ecosystem?
Decrease in the Fox population
400
Do Biotic factors need Abiotic factors to survive? Why/ Why not?
Plants need them to grow which starts the food chain and consumers would not exist.
400
What do all producers need to get energy?
The Sun
400
Describe the difference between a habitat and a community
What is a habitat is the background of an ecosystem- the living plants and nonliving things- no animals. A community is all the living things (plants and animals) in an ecosystem
400
How is the tundra biome different from the desert biome?
What is the tundra is dry and mostly cold. The desert biome is dry and mostly hot.
400
Why are decomposers important to a food chain?
Eat the dead animal and plants and return nutrients into the soil so more producers can grow and the food chain continue.
500
What are 3 Biotic factors and 3 Abiotic factors that are in our community (label them Biotic & Abiotic)
Answers Vary...
500
What would happen if all of the consumers disappeared?
There would be a lot of producers but nothing to eat them.
500
Describe an ecosystem
What is an area of land and all the living and nonliving things that interact within it.
500
What biome do we line in?
Forest or Deciduous Biomes
500
Explain how the mouse effects 2 other animals in this food web.
If no mice then owls (fox/ Hawk) have to eat frogs (rabbits/ Snakes).