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Types of Ecosystems
Ecosystem Facts 1
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Ecosystem
All living and non-living things in an environment and the ways they interact
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Producer
A living thing that makes its own food
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Which ecosystem has ground that is covered with water for at least part of the year?
Wetlands
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Which group makes up the largest level of the energy pyramid?
Producers
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True or false: a consumer gets it's energy from the sun
False: a consumer gets its energy from stored within the living things it eats
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Population
All of the members of one species that live within an area of an ecosystem
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Consumer
Living things that eat other living things
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Which ecosystem is the driest ecosystem in the world?
Desert
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From where does a carnivore get its energy?
the stored energy in its prey
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True or false: a carnivore sometimes eats plants
false: carnivores only eat other animals
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Habitat
The area or place where an organism lives within an ecosystem
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Decomposer
An organism that breaks down plant and animal waste and remains
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Which ecosystem is covered in tall grasses and receive a medium amount of rain?
Grasslands
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What changes form as it moves through the ecosystem?
the sun’s energy
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When is the balance of the ecosystem even?
when it has enough resources to meet the needs of all living things
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Extinct
No longer existing as a species
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Producer
A living thing that makes its own food
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Which ecosystem is a cold region where the ground is frozen all year round?
Tundra
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How are fossils preserved in amber different from other fossils?
The whole body (soft and hard parts) are preserved
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What is the difference between a mold fossil and a cast fossil?
a mold is buried remains that created an empty space shaped like the animal and a cast is rock that filled the empty mold
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Fossil
remains or mark of an animal or plant that lived long ago
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Abiotic
non-living
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Which ecosystem is rainy and filled with banana slugs?
Rain forest
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Name four things that can affect and ecosystem
disease, pollution, storms, hunting
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How are a food chain and a food web different?
a food chain shows the transfer of energy from eaten to eater while a food web shows the many food chains overlapping