Vocabulary
This is where an organism finds food and shelter.
What is a habitat?
This is the word for all the oak trees in an area.
What is a population?
This is a person that studies the Earth's physical structure, rocks, and how it was created.
What is a geologist?
This is a complicated food chain that connects and overlaps.
What is a food web?
This word describes all of the squirrels, rabbits, dogs, cats, and people in Bonsack.
What is a community?
This is all the living things on Earth.
What is the Biosphere?
Grass -> Grasshopper -> Frog -> Snake -> Hawk -> Fungi
What is a food chain?
This describes a bumblebee's niche.
What is flying, pollinating, making honey, eating, and reproducing?
The Atlantic ocean is this and why.
What is an ecosystem because it has both living and non-living things?
This is changed because the scientist changes it.
What is the independent variable?
Plants are usually found here in a food web.
What is the bottom?
These survive on dead animals and make the soil rich.
What are decomposers?
This is the movement of sediment by natural forces.
What is erosion?
What type of animal follows the plants in a food web?
What are herbivores?
These are 5 things that were part of our community but are not anymore. They are now only part of the ecosystem.
What are dead leaves, sticks, branches, animal bones, pine cones, pine straw, and many more things?
This is how fertilizers in the soil can hurt a river community.
What is the toxins erode into the water. The water then damages or kills the plants. Small animal populations will eat the plants and get sick or die and the larger animal populations will get smaller due to the loss of thier food.
This is the ability to do work or cause change.
What is energy?
These are microscopic plants and animals in a marine habitat at the beginning of a food web.
What are phytoplankton and zooplankton?