Characteristics of Life
What characteristic of life explains why your body maintains a stable temperature?
Homeostasis
Are rocks biotic or abiotic?
Abiotic
The place where an organism lives is called its ____.
Habitat
What type of organism makes its own food?
Producer
What are the two main reactants of photosynthesis?
Carbon dioxide + water
All living things are made of one or more ____.
Cells
Give one example of a biotic factor in a forest ecosystem.
Animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, etc.
A group of the same species living together in the same area is a ____.
Population
Animals that eat plants or other animals are called ____.
Consumers
What is the main product of photosynthesis that provides energy to living things?
Glucose
What characteristic of life is shown when a sunflower turns toward the sun?
Response to stimuli
What do we call all the living and nonliving things interacting in an area?
An ecosystem
What is a species?
a group of similar organisms that can reproduce similar organisms
What organisms break down dead matter and return nutrients to the soil?
Decomposers
What part of the plant absorbs sunlight?
The chloroplasts inside the leaves
Name 4 characteristics of life
Made of cells, homeostasis, metabolism, reproduction, genetics, adaptation, response to stimuli, growth
Identify the abiotic factor that is the main source of energy for most ecosystems.
Sunlight
Identify each: A wolf pack in Yellowstone, Yellowstone National Park, a single wolf, and a forest den.
Habitat, Ecosystem, Population and Species
A wolf pack: Population
Yellowstone: ecosystem
A single Wolf: species (individual organism)
Forest Den: habitat
Draw or describe the correct order of a basic food chain.
Producer → Primary Consumer → Secondary Consumer → Tertiary Consumer
Which structures of the plant take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen?
Stomata
Name 2 characteristics of life and give an example of each
answers may vary
A pond dries up during a drought. Explain how an abiotic factor caused changes in biotic factors.
Organisms die, migrate, or decrease due to lack of water
Describe the difference between a habitat and an ecosystem
Habitat = where an organism lives; Ecosystem = interactions between biotic + abiotic
Only about __% of energy moves from one trophic level to the next
10%
Identify the products of cellular respiration.
Carbon dioxide, water, ATP (energy)