Vocabulary
Fossils
Food Web and Food Chain
Environmental Factors
Test Prep.
100
This is where all living and non-living things live and interact with each other.
What is an ecosystem?
100
this is the imprint of a fossil on a rock or mineral.
What is a mold fossil?
100
This diagram shows the type of energy that flows from producers to consumers.
What is an energy pyramid?
100
This occurs when two or more animals require the same thing to survive.
What is competition.
100
a cold, icy, and treeless land. Often exists in the north and south poles.
What is a tundra ecosystem?
200
This is an area or place where organisms live in an ecosystem.
What is a habitat?
200
This scientist studies fossils to learn about extinct organisms.
What is a paleontologist?
200
This is a system of overlapping food chains in which the flow of energy branches out in many directions.
What is a food web?
200
Because of this producer, animals and other organisms in this ecosystem did not have enough space to live and were pushed out.
What is too much plant growth?
200
How can beavers effect the ecosystem?
by destroying: trees still water animals causing floods
300
These are all the members of one species that live within an area of an ecosystem.
What is a population?
300
This fossil is a rock or mineral that has taken shape of the original fossil which no longer exists.
What is a cast fossil?
300
Without this slug the food web in an ecosystem and the ecosystem itself may collapse.
What is the decomposer, banana slug?
300
Because of this incident ecosystems in and near the Gulf of Mexico were destroyed.
What is the BP oil spill?
300
A hawk.
What is an example of a carnivore?
400
remains or mark of an animal or plant that lived long ago
What is a fossil?
400
This is what fossils show us.
How plants, animals, and the environment has changed over time?
400
With this removal the result would be the collapse of a food web and an increased amount of competition between omnivores and carnivores.
What is the result of removing herbivores from an ecosystem?
400
The creation of industries caused this problem. The throwing away of trash and refuse in an improper way.
What is air pollution? What is water pollution?
400
These organisms can only be plants.
What are producers?
500
the transfer of energy from one organism to another by eating and being eaten.
What is a food chain?
500
This extinct animal has a hollow crest on their head.
What is a hadrosaur?
500
this part of the food chain and food web as well as the energy pyramid gets the least amount of the main energy source of all organisms.
What are carnivores?
500
Birds in this ecosystem may die because of the use of this chemical people use often.
What is pesticide?
500
Any animal.
What is an example of a consumer?