Vocabulary
Ecosystem
Food Chain
Food Web
All
100
_____ get food by only eating plants
Herbivores
100
What is an ecosystem?
A system where living and nonliving things interact
100
What is a consumer in this food chain?
sunlight---- flower----rabbit----wolf
Rabbit
Wolf
100
Which part of the food web has the most available energy?
The producers in the food web
100
Which bread should decay faster; the dry bread or the wet bread?
The wet bread
200
_____ recycle matter from dead plants and animals.
Decomposers
200
Why would a decrease of population in an ecosystem occur?
The amount of food decreases
200
What is the producer in this food chain?
algae--- snail---- blue heron
Algae
200
What is the main energy source for all life on Earth?
Sunlight
200
What factors can impact the rate of decay?
Temperature
Moisture
300
_____ are consumers that eat only animals.
Carnivores
300
All the members of one species that live within an area of an ecosystem make up a(n) _______.
Population
300
What is a consumer?
What are the three kinds of consumers?
Organisms that consume other living things
Ex:
herbivore
carnivore
omnivore
300
Why is this a food web and not a food chain?
The energy flows in different directions
300
Why are decomposers important in an ecosystem?
They break down dead organisms and put minerals back in the earth
400
Each organism in a habitat has a different role or ____.
Niche
400
The energy in an ecosystem comes from _____.
Sunlight
400
What is a producer?
An organism that produces it's own food
ex. flowers, grass
400
What will happen to a food web if a population of animals dramatically decreases?
The food web will change
400
What is the difference between a niche and a habitat
A niche is the job of an organism
A habitat is the place where the organism lives
500
All the organisms that live in an ecosystem form a(n) ________.
Community
500
Why is the desert and the rain forest an ecosystem?
They both have parts that work together
500
What travels though a food chain?
Nutrients and minerals
500
How is a food web different from a food chain?
A food web is several different food chains that are connected. Energy only goes in one direction in a food chain but can go in several different directions in a food web
500
What is an adaptation that would be helpful to an animal that gets its food from a high place?
wings