Ecology 3
To find the value that is close to the right answer.
Estimate
What best describes a carnivore?
Animals that eat meat.
Can you give 3 examples of why elephants adapt well in their environment.
ears, tusks, trunk
An animal that is hunted by another animal for food.
Predator
Can you name me the biome where a tuna lives?
Aquatic
Which type of environment can support a larger population of plant eating elephants?
Grassland
Studies the relationship between organisms and their environment (habitat).
Ecology
Animals who eat both plants and animals.
Omnivores
The path by which energy passes from one living thing to another.
Food chain
What type of vertebrate is a snake?
reptile
A group of elephants leaving the heard to form a new group is called …
emigration
Samples are taken from different areas within the habitat, usually using a quadrat frame.
Random sampling
An organism that makes its own food.
producer
A food web is similar to a food chain but larger. It combines many food chains into one food cycle.
Food web
Can you name the biome where bears live?
Forest
Species that live in the same area at the same time are living in a ...?
Community
The change in the number of individuals in a certain area during a specific time period.
Population change
Can you give three examples as to why cactus's adapt well in an arid-desert environment.
no leaves, spines, roots, stem
Animals who eat plants
Herbivores
True of false, are cnidarians vertebrates?
False
One of the ecological research methods is watching the natural world. What is the research method called?
Observation
Organisms that feed on decaying matter are called …
Decomposers
An organism that hunts, gathers, and eats food because they cannot make their own.
Consumers
All the physical environmental factors and all the organisms that are found in a habitat.
Ecosystem
What is a frog classified as?
Amphibian