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7th Grade Eco
Esposito
Question | Answer |
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What is a Producer? | An organism that produces its own energy and food |
What is the source of all food in an ecosystem? | Producers |
What are the three energy roles in an ecosystem? | Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers. |
What is a consumer? | An organism that eats other organisms to obtain energy. |
What are herbivores? | Consumers that only eat plants. |
What are carnivores? | Consumers that only eat meat and/or other animals. |
What are omnivores? | They are consumers that eat both meat and plants. |
What are decomposers? | They are organisms that break down wastes and dead organisms and return the raw materials to the ecosystem. |
what is a food chain? | The series of events in which one organism eats another to obtain energy. |
What is a food web? | The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem. |
What is the difference between a food web and a food chain? | A food chain shows only one possible path that energy can move through in an ecosystem. While a food web shows multiple paths energy can move throughout an ecosystem. |
What are the different levels in a food web? | Producers, first level consumers, second level consumers, and third level consumers. |
Which consumer gets the least amount of energy? | Third level consumers. |
What is an energy pyramid? | It shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web. |
As you go up the pyramid, each level gets _________ energy. | Less. |
What are abiotic Factors? | The nonliving parts of an organisms habitat. |
what are the 5 Abiotic factors? | Water, Sunlight, Temperature, Oxygen, and Soil. |
What are the 3 levels of organization? | Populations, Community, and Ecosystem. |
What are biotic Factors? | The living parts of an organisms habitat. |
What is a population? | All the members of a particular species in a certain area are referred to as a Population. |
What are the parts of a lab Report? | Hypothesis, Materials, Procedure, Data, and Conclusion. |
How do you know what variable goes on the Y axis of a graph? | DRY (Dependent or Responding variable on Y axis) |
How do you know what variable goes on the X axis of a graph? | MIX(Manipulated or Independent variable on X axis) |
An Organisms scientific name consists of? | Genus name and a Species name. |
What Island did Jane Goodall study on? | Gombe |
What year did Jane Goodall start her study? | 1960 (At the age of 26.) |
What Animal did Jane Goodall Study? | Chimpanzee. |
What Were major things that we learned from Jane Goodall's study? | That The chimps Used and Made tools and Were Similar to humans. |
What is an Independent Variable? | A Variable that you purposely change to alter the outcome. |
What is a dependent Variable? | The Variable that you cannot control (depends on the independent variable) |
What does T.A.I.L.S. stand for on a graph? | Title, Axis, Interval, Labels, Scale. |
What is scientific Inquiry? | The Diverse ways in which scientists study the natural world, and propose explanations on the information they gather. |