Ecosystems
Which of these is NOT an example of an ecosystem?
Answer Choices
Rainforest
A city
Desert
Deep ocean
A City
Where does all of the energy come from in a food chain?
Sun
An _____________ is the sudden shaking of the Earth's crust caused by rocks plates moving along a fault/crack.
Earthquake
The movement of animals from one region to another and back.
Migration
If a scientist found a fish fossil in the desert, what can they infer?
It used to be an ocean!
______________ is home to a huge number of plants and animals and it rains A LOT.
Rainforest
What do you call an animal that hunts and eats other animals?
Predator
A ___________ is a period of time without rain.
Drought
A deep sleep to conserve energy.
Hibernation
A paleontologist finds a fossil of a fish on top of a mountain. She can infer that the area was once ___________________________.
Ocean or Underwater
A habitat with many trees with leaves that change with the color of the season is called a ___________________.
Forest
________ are consumers that eat plants and meat.
Omnivore
Are beavers making dams a harmful change, a helpful change, or both?
Both
When an animal can't react to their environment
Death
Why are there more animal fossils than plant fossils?
Plans have softer bodies than animals.
An ecosystem is the same as a habitat.
False, it also includes the living things.
Which group do fungi, bacteria, and termites belong to?
If all of the deer in a forest died. How would the grass that the deer eat be effected?
The grass would grow a lot more and take over the ecosystem.
When one animal changes to survive we call this an
adaptation
What is an imprint fossil?
A track or impression left on the surface of something.
This ecosystem has a large open fields and buffalo.
Grasslands
___________ Make their own food by using the sun's energy.
Producers
If the number of wolves increased in a forest, what would happen to the number of rabbits? (Wolves eat rabbits)
Bonus 50 points
What would eventually happen to all of the wolves?
Rabbit numbers would decrease or go down.
Bonus Answer: They would die out or leave because there was no longer any more rabbits after a long period of time.
Locomotion
Which type of rock are most fossils found?
Sedimentary Rocks