Food Chains and Food Webs
Types of Ecosystems
Adaptations
Living Things Change their Environment
Changes Effect Living Things
100
What is the name for the first Organism in a food chain?
Producer
100
What is the largest ecosystem on the planet?
Ocean
100
What adaptation means to blend in to your environment? Give one example of an animal that has this adaptation.
Camouflage Tiger's stripes, camelion, leopards spots, etc, ...
100
What is the name of something that helps an organism survive in its environment? Give an example.
Resource Water, sunlight, soil, air, food, etc, ...
100
What word means when there is too much water on the land and the land is covered in water?
Flood
200
How many producers are there in a food chain?
One
200
What word means the weather in an ecosystem over a long time?
Climate
200
Name two adaptations that a cactus has to live in the desert.
Spines to protect it from being eaten, Waxy stem, can store water in its stem, has deep or wide roots to catch water, etc, ...
200
What word means the fight for resources in an environment?
Competition
200
What can happen after a long time without any rain?
Drought
300
What is the name of the organisms that break down dead animals and plants?
Decomposers.
300
Name the two types of forest we studied and describe each one.
Temperate Forest - Has 4 seasons, Leaves fall off the trees animals hibernate in winter Tropical Rain Forest - Rains almost every day, Highest density of organisms
300
What word means animals being active at night? What ecosystem would you see animals coming out at night and why?
Nocturnal The desert because it is too hot in the day to hunt.
300
What is the name for the bad gases and trash that humans put into the environment?
Pollution
300
What is the name that describes flooding, drought, tornadoes, wildfire, etc, ...
Natural Disaster
400
What is the name of two or more food chains together?
Food Web
400
What is the word for the pieces of broken down nutrients that the decomposers make?
Humus
400
What word means copying another organism to survive? Give an example of an animal that does this.
Mimicry Butterflies mimic poisonous butterflies, etc, ...
400
Name 3 ways that humans change the environment.
Clearing land, Pollution, Creating competition
400
If a disease spreads in an ecosystem that kills all the frogs will this effect the herons?
Yes. The herons eat the frogs so they will have less food if the frogs all die.
500
What are the three names that describe what an animal eats? What do the words mean?
Carnivore - Meat eater Herbivore - Plant Eater Omnivore - Eats both
500
How many centimeters of rain does an ecosystem have to get to be a desert?
Fewer that 25cm
500
What are the small balloons attached to ocean algae called? And why do algae have this adaptation?
Air Bladders These keep the plants floating so they can reach the sunlight.
500
What are the three R's and what do they mean?
Reuse - To use something again Reduce - To use less of something Recycle - To make somethjing into a new product
500
What word means all the living things in an ecosystem? What word means all the living things of one type in an ecosystem?
Community and Population