Vocabulary
An organism that makes its own food
Producer
What do the arrows in a food web stand for?
Energy
An animal that has webbed feet, nostrils near the tip of the nose, 2 layers of waterproof fur, and a flat furry tail taht stores fat might live in what kind of environment?
Water
The stages of growth and development that an animal goes trhough in its life.
Life Cycle
What are 5 ways that can change an ecosystem?
Pollution, oil spills, deforestation, over population, climate
An organism that gets energy by eating other organisms
Consumer
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Identify two animals in the picture that probably compete for a resource.
Great horned owls and red-tailed hawks
striped skunks and red tailed hawks
Mice and ants
mice and squirrels
squirrels and ants
ants and skunks
etc.
Hair texture, throwing baseball, reading, and weight are all examples of inherited traits.
True or False
False
What is it called when a plant or animal is in the earliest stage of development
Embryo
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Define:
Organism, population, and community
Organism: A living thing thing
Population: All the organisms of the same species that live in the same place at the same time
Community: Populations that live in th esame place at the same time
An organism that gets energy by feeding on dead materials and wastes
Decomposer
What is the difference between a food web and a food chain?
A food web has multiple sources of energy for different organisms while a food chain only contains one
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Based on the picture what is an advantage that only one of these animals have in obtaining food?
The neck of the Gerenuk allows it to reach high to eat from trees
What is the difference between incomplete metamorphosis and complete metamorphosis?
Complete metamorphosis is when the organism changes completely
incomplete metamorphosis is when the organisms keeps its body shape and structures
Which is an example of an interaction between living and nonliving components,
A. a hummingbirds claws and beak
B. a grasshopper giving energy to a frog
C. a plant fgrowing in a bed of soil
D. The life cycle of a lady beetle
C. A plant growing in a bed of soil
Inherited Trait
A characteristic that is passed from parent to their offspring
What are the differences between a primary consumer, a secondary consumer, and a tertiary consumer?
Primary consumer eats only plants (herbivore)
Secondary consumer eats both plants and animals (omnivore)
Tertiary Consumer eats only meet (Carnevore)
what is the purpose of a cactus having thorns?
The thorns protect the cactus from predators
Which of these animal activities is most like the stage of the life cycle in which seeds are released?
A. a snake shedding its skin
B. A bird laying an egg
C. A swarm of bees leaving a hive
B. A bird laying an egg
The population of bunnies in 1915 was 35.7 per 100 acres, in 1920 the bunny population was 142.9 per 100 acres. What caused the change in the bunny population?
A. Very little rainfall
G. Many bunnies starving
H. Removal of Predators
J. More bunnies being hunted
H. Removal of Predators
Learned Behavior
A behavior that an animal develops by observing other animals or by beigh taught
Create a simple food web on the board for a forest ecosystem
start with the sun, must contain producers, consumers, and decomposers
An owl monkey is nocturnal. It lives in rainforests and eats fruits and nuts. Which if the following is most likely an inherited trait of owl monkeys?
A. Avoiding poisonous berries
B. Using a rock to crack nuts
C. Knowing where to find fruit
D. Having a strong sense of smell
D. Having a strong sense of smell
Only animals have embryos.
True or False
False
What can happen to a grassland environment if there is an overpopulation of grazers?
The grazers would eat all the grass leaving no producers