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Roles in the Ecosystem
Parts of an Ecosystem
Niches
Energy flow
Mix-Up
100
The specific role an organism has in its habitat.
What is niche?
100
All the living and nonliving things in an environment and how they interact.
What is an ecosystem?
100
Consumer that eats only animals.
What is a carnivore?
100
The process by which energy moves from ONE type of living thing to ANOTHER.
What is a food chain?
100
An type of consumer with flat teeth.
What is a herbivore?
200
Organism that lives by breaking down waste and remains of dead plants and animals to gain nutrients.
What is a decomposer?
200
An area or place where an organism lives in an ecosystem.
What is a habitat?
200
Living thing that makes its own food.
What is a producer?
200
A system of OVERLAPPING food chains in which the flow of energy branches out in many directions.
What is a food web?
200
Fungi falls under this niche.
What is a decomposer?
300
Living thing that eats other organisms.
What is a consumer?
300
All the members of one species that live within an area of an ecosystem.
What is a population?
300
Consumer that gets energy by eating only plants
What is a herbivore?
300
These show energy flow in a food chain or web.
What are arrows?
300
The ecosystem we live in.
What is a temperate forest?
400
An animal eaten by others for food.
What is prey?
400
Different populations that interact with each other in the same area.
What is a community?
400
Consumer that eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
400
A plant gets eaten by a caterpillar. The caterpillar then gets eaten by a frog. The frog then gets eaten by a snake. This is an example of...
What is a food chain?
400
Producers need these things to survive.
What are sunlight, water, CO2, and soil.
500
A consumer that eats other animals for food.
What is a predator?
500
Three words we use to describe the state of things within the ecosystem. (*HINT* animals, rocks, dead trees)
What are living, nonliving, and once living?
500
The animal at the top of the food chain.
What is the top consumer?
500
When an animal dies, this process happens where nutrients gets put back into the soil.
What is decomposition?
500
Put the following animals in order for a food chain: corn, snake, mouse, and hawk.
What is corn, mouse, snake, and hawk.