Populations & Habitats
Environmental Changes
Energy in Ecosystems
Food Webs
Wild Card
100
The population is found in a rain forest ecosystem ...
Options:
- antelopes
- monkeys
- sponges
- zebras
What are monkeys?
100
________________ refers to what an animal does in order to survive in a changing environment.
What is adaptation?
100
This organism makes its own food
What is a producer?
100
Many food chains tied that interact with one another can be referred to as
What is a food web?
100
Examples of producers include
What are:
Plants
Trees
Crops, etc.
200
In a rain forest, why do fewer plants grow closer to the ground?
- Earthworms eat the plants living on the ground.
- Broad leaves keep rain from reaching ground soil.
- Vines allow little space for ground plants to grow.
- Little light gets through the canopy to the forest floor.
What is Little light gets through the canopy to the forest floor
200
The developer wants to build where the fewest crocodile observations have occurred. Near which type of area is the developer most likely to place the new housing development?
Percentages of crocodile observations
Ponds: 40%
Shoreline: 10%
Coves: 35%
Creeks: 15%
What is the shoreline?
200
__________________ are animals that eat plants and animals.
What are omnivores?
200
A food web shows all how all the _________ in an ecosystem are connected
What are food chains?
200
Mold is an example of
What is a decomposer?
300
A large group of elephants in a savanna can to be referred to as a _______________ of elephants.
what is a population?
300
_________________ results in a habitat because there is a limited amount of resources.
What is competition?
300
Common decomposers include
What are bacteria and fungi ?
300
If the predators disappeared in an ecosystem, the prey population would ______________, and then eventually ______________ from competition of resources.
What is increasing and decreasing?
300
A cactus would most live in a ______________________ habitat.
What is a hot, dry habitat?
400
Earth worms are considered ___________ because they eat rotting leaves and the remains of dead insects.
what are decomposers?
400
After large numbers of people moved to an area, several species of animals and plants became extinct. This event most likely led to the extinction of so many species in a short amount of time ....
Options:
- natural disasters
- habitat destruction
- variations in the species
- the change in the climate
What is habitat destruction?
400
Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers ALL rely on ________; the origin of energy.
What is sunlight?
400
Since I'm at the very top of the food web and have no known predators, I am considered a(n) ...
What is an apex predator?
400
I only eat plants so I'm a ___________.
What is a herbivore?
500
In a habitat, the process that plants use to produce their own food
What is photosynthesis?
500
Carrotwood is a fast-growing landscape tree. Today, this tree is found in many habitats, including dunes, coastal areas, freshwater marshes, and riverbanks. It crowds out native plants and competes for light and other resources.It is considered a _________ species.
What is an invasive species?
500
A diagram that shows the shows how much energy that's passed along from one organism that consumers another
What is an energy pyramid?
500
Bacteria at the bottom of the food chain because
They are decomposers and break down dead animals.
500
What organism will be negatively affected first in this food chain if the mouse population dies out?
Sunlight --> Grass --> Mouse --> Snake --> Hawk
The snake
The snake will not have a food source, so it will likely die out next.