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Characteristics of Organisms
Environment
Food Chains
Extra Vocabulary
Impacts on the environment
100
This is something that this is passed down from parents to their offspring.
What is an inherited trait
100
These are the living factors in an ecosystem.
What are biotic factors
100
This is the start of every food chain (its source of energy).
What is the sun.
100
This is an organism that makes its own food.
What is a producer.
100
This is something good that humans or other organisms do to change the environment
What is a positive effect
200
This is something it learned by the organism from their environment, learning, and adaptation.
What is an inherited trait
200
These are the non living factors in an ecosystem
What are abiotic factors.
200
This is an animal that only eats plants.
What is an herbivore.
200
This is an organism that has to eat in order to survive.
What is a consumer
200
This is something harmful that humans or other organisms do to the environment
What is a negative effect
300
This is how an organisms changes to meet the needs of its environment.
What is adaptation.
300
Sun, dirt, water, clouds, and air are all examples of this factor found in ecosystems.
What is biotic factors.
300
This is an animal that only eats meat.
What is a carnivore.
300
This is all of the members of one species in an area.
What is population.
300
What would happen to all of the frogs if the grasshoppers were all gone. Example: In the sun - grass - grasshopper - frogs
What is the grass would over populate
400
What is one way that a palm tree would adapt to its environment?
What is bending in the wind.
400
Animals, plants, decomposers are all examples of this factor found in an ecosystem.
What are biotic factors.
400
This is the ability for an organism to stay alive.
What is survival.
400
What would happen to all of the hawks if the grasshoppers were all gone. Example: In the sun - grass - grasshopper - frogs - hawks
What is the hawks would eat until the frogs were gone and then the hawks would die out or move to a new environment
500
Why would a plant grow taller on one side than the other to bend or grow taller than normal?
What is to get more light.
500
Name one reason abiotic and biotic factors are necessary for survival.
What is living things all need biotic and abiotic factors to survive.
500
This is the organism that eats dead and decaying material.
What is a decomposer.
500
This is the path of energy from one organism to another.
What is a food chain.
500
What would happen if the frogs were eliminated from the food chain. Example: In the sun - grass - grasshopper - frogs - hawks
What is the grasshoppers would over populate and the hawks would die out.