Biotic
Abiotic
Food Chains
Vocabulary
Insects
100
These are three biotic factors in an aquarium.
What fish, snails, and plants?
100
What are three abiotic factors in an aquarium?
What are the sand, rocks, gravel, water, and container?
100
This is always the first part of any food chain.
What is the sun?
100
This is what a botanist studies.
What are plants?
100
These are the three body parts of an insect.
What are the head, the abdomen, and the thorax?
200
These are three biotic factors in a terrarium.
What are plants, worms, and isopods?
200
These are three abiotic factors in the terrarium.
What are the soil, rocks, container, and sand?
200
These are always higher on the food chain: carnivores or herbivores.
What are carnivores.
200
This is what a biologist studies.
What are living things?
200
The legs and wings attach to this body part.
What is the thorax?
300
These are three biotic factors in the milkweed bug habitat.
What the milkweed bugs, the sunflower seeds, and the sticks?
300
These are three abiotic factors in the milkweed bug habitat.
What are the water, the water container, the plastic tube, the plastic bag, nesting material, and the netting for the sunflower seeds?
300
This is the correct order for a food chain. California gull, sun, brine shrimp, algae
What sun to algae to brine shrimp to California gull?
300
This is what an astronomer studies.
What are planets, stars, and moons?
300
These are the four stages of metamorphosis.
What is egg to larva to pupa to adult?
400
These are three biotic factors in the Lake Mono ecosystem.
What are birds, coyotes, brine shrimp or flies, algae and bacteria?
400
These are three abiotic factors in the Lake Mono ecosystem.
What are water, rocks, sand, and air?
400
This is a food chain for an aquarium. little fish, gammarius, algae, big fish, sun
What is sun to algae to gammarius to little fish to big fish?
400
This is what terrestrial means.
What is land?
400
These are three types of insects that go through metamorphosis.
What are beetles, butterflies, houseflies, and ants?
500
These were three biotic factors in the Jane Goodall documentary.
What chimpanzees, people, trees, bushes, bananas . . . ?
500
These are three abiotic factors in Jane Goodall's video.
What are rocks, soil, cans, tents, etc.?
500
This is a food chain found at Mono Lake. halobacteria, brine flies, coyote, snowy plover, red-necked phalarope, sun
What is sun to halobacteria to brine flies to red-necked phalarope to snowy plover to coyote?
500
This is what ecosystem means.
What is the interaction of biotic (living) and abiotic (nonliving) factors?
500
These are three groups of insects who go through gradual metamorphosis.
What are grasshoppers, termites, cockroaches, and dragonflies?