Predator vs. Prey
Food Chain/Food Web
Populations
Ecology Vocabulary
Scientific Method
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It is the animal that kills and eats another animal
What is a predator?
100
It is the animal that eats the producer (grass,fruit,nuts.seeds).
What is a primary consumer (Mouse, Rabbit, Insect)?
100
It is the main reason some introduced species survive and overpopulate an area.
What is loss or no natural predator?
100
Are without life or non-living factors found in an ecosystem.
What are Abiotic Factors?
100
It is the statement that includes If_____then _____ because_____.
What is a hypothesis?
200
It is the animal that is killed and eaten.
What is a prey?
200
In the following food chain: Grass--> Rabbit---> Owl and/or human The producer is the _____.
What is grass?
200
What type of graph would you use to graph a population changes over time?
What is a line graph?
200
Together, the requirements such as food, water, oxygen (Biotic and Abiotic factors) and shelter define an organism's.
What is a Habitat?
200
True or False: Classifying organisms is about the Classification that shows relationships among different groups of organisms
What is true?
300
It is the relationship between the new species in the lake and the original population of animals (minnows).
What is predator/prey?
300
It is the original source of energy in all food webs.
What is the sun?
300
This is the physical change in the Sonoran Desert ecosystem that would likely decrease the carrying capacity of the desert for plants.
What is drought?
300
it is an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form.
What is an organism?
300
A Hypothesis or "educated guess" includes this verb.
What is to predict?
400
It is the main reason some introduced species survive and overpopulate an area.
What is loss or no natural predator?
400
Fungi and bacteria are BOTH examples of this type of organisms.
What are decomposers?
400
A new species of fish has been introduced into a lake. This fish eats minnows, a smaller fish that already lives in the lake. Your prediction to the change in population of minnows in the lake would be.
What is the population of minnows will decrease?
400
It is the job or role that an organism plays in its habitat.
What is a Niche?
400
You see a cat that is crouched behind a flower pot. She is sitting very still and looking at something on the other side. You think she is hunting a mouse. Your idea is known as
What is an inference?
500
In this food chain, this is the animal that has no predator lettuce --> rabbit --> weasel --> fox
What is the fox?
500
Its job is to break down dead waste and matter.
What is a decomposer?
500
A new species of fish has been introduced into a lake. This fish eats minnows, a smaller fish that already lives in the lake. Your prediction to the change in population of the new species of fish in the lake would be...
What is the population will increase?
500
Its job is to break down dead waste and matter.
What is a decomposer?
500
These are the 7 steps of the Scientific Method
What is Question/Problem Research/Observations Hypothesis Experiment Data Analysis Conclusion and Communicate Results?