Question | Answer |
What scientist made a career of studying chimpanzees in their natural surroundings? | Jane Goodall |
Name 3 things the African rainforests provide animals | water, shelter, fruits, nuts, seeds, insects to eat |
All living organisms in an ecosystem | Biotic factors |
All nonliving parts in an ecosystem | Abiotic factors |
Name some abiotic factors | air, water, soil, temperature, sunlight |
Organisms living in an ecosystem often have similar what? | Traits or characteristics |
The organisms traits help them survive their | ecosystem |
Name a few animals that live in a tropical rain forest. | Butterflies, tree frogs, monkeys, parrots |
What kind of climate does a desert have? | little rain, hot days, cool nights |
Organisms living in the desert have what to help them survive the hot, dry conditions? | traits |
Name some animals that live in the United States deserts | coyotes, desert tortoises, lizards, rattlesnakes |
What do rodents, rabbits and caribou feed off of in the Tundra? | small plants and grasses |
Organisms living in the tundra have traits that help them survive what? | cold weather and little rain |
Name a few animals that live in the tundra | weasels, polar bear, foxes |
What kind of plants are able to live in Taiga | fir, spruce, hemlock |
Name a few of the small animals that live in Taiga and what they eat. | squirrels, birds, insects, eat berries and the seeds of trees |
What kind of weather do Taiga's have? | harsh, long, cold winters |
Hawks and grizzly bears that eat other animals are called what? | predators |
Large animals such as elk and moose eat what? | tree bark and young plants |
In the wetlands a shallow layer of what covers the surface of the land for some or all of the year? | water |
What kind of animals live in the coastal wetlands? | birds, snakes and variety of insects |
The mixed forests are home to what? | many types of trees and animals |
Do to the cold winters the animals in the mixed forest will do what? | hibernate |
The birds in the mixed forest will do what? | migrate to warmer weather |
Where are prairie ecosystems found? | throughout the Midwest and Great Plains |
Which ecosystem do Bison live in? | Prairie |
the role that an organism has in an ecosystem. | niche |
Place where an organism lives | habitat |
What is a habitat made up of? | soil, air, water as well as the plants of the area |
What is the habitat of the northern pygmy owl? | trees and the land on which they live |
What is a carrying capacity? | the number of organisms that can live in a habitat |
Name the factors that limit the carrying capacity of a habitat? | food, water, space and shelter |
What happens to a population in a carrying capacity with it has the right conditions such as plenty of food, few diseases and few predators. | The population will grow larger |
What is it called and what happens if a population grows larger than the carrying capacity? | Overcrowding and food supplies run out and organisms must move to other areas in order to survive. |
Ecosystems are made up of? | living and nonliving things |
Why do some organisms compete with one another? | for space and food |
Each organism in an ecosystem fills the energy role of? | producer, consumer, decomposer |
Most producers use energy from what to make their food? | sun |
Herbivores, such as a moose eat only? | plants |
Carnivores like lions eat only? | other animals |
Black bears eat both plants and animals they are called | omnivores |
Carnivores like vultures and hyenas feed on dead animals and are called? | Scavengers |
Most decomposers are too small to see unless you use a ? | Microscope |
How does energy pass through an ecosystem? | When food is eaten |
A series of steps by which energy moves from one type of living thing to another is called? | Food chain |
A diagram that combines many food chains into one picture is called | Food web |
Plants may compete for? | sunlight, soil, water |
Animals may compete for? | territory, water, light, food or mates |
A long term relationship between two different organisms is called | symbiosis |
An organism that lives on or inside of another organism | parasite |
Fungi, bacteria and animals can all be types of | decomposers |
Name two types of fungi | mold and yeasts |
What does mold get from the food? | energy |
Animal decomposers break down dead plant and animal remains and use the nutrients left over for what? | live and grow |
Mushroom are fungi that often grow where? | wet soil or on dead trees |
Mushrooms get ______ from the decaying trees and return some ______________ to the ecosystem | energy, nutrients |
A predator is a consumer that gets its energy by? | eating other animals |
Most of the food that a plant makes is made where? | plant's leaves |
What is Earth's primary energy source? | Sun |
A green substance that traps energy from the sun is called | Chlorophyll |
Where is Chlorophyll stored | in the chloroplasts of plant cells |
Carbon dioxide + water Light energy/chlorophyll | |
Ecosystems are made up of? | living and nonliving things |
Why do some organisms compete with one another? | for space and food |
Each organism in an ecosystem fills the energy role of? | producer, consumer, decomposer |
Most producers use energy from what to make their food? | sun |
Herbivores, such as a moose eat only? | plants |
Carnivores like lions eat only? | other animals |
Black bears eat both plants and animals they are called | omnivores |
Carnivores like vultures and hyenas feed on dead animals and are called? | Scavengers |
Most decomposers are too small to see unless you use a ? | Microscope |
How does energy pass through an ecosystem? | When food is eaten |
A series of steps by which energy moves from one type of living thing to another is called? | Food chain |
A diagram that combines many food chains into one picture is called | Food web |
Plants may compete for? | sunlight, soil, water |
Animals may compete for? | territory, water, light, food or mates |
A long term relationship between two different organisms is called | symbiosis |
An organism that lives on or inside of another organism | parasite |
Fungi, bacteria and animals can all be types of | decomposers |
Name two types of fungi | mold and yeasts |
What does mold get from the food? | energy |
Animal decomposers break down dead plant and animal remains and use the nutrients left over for what? | live and grow |
Mushroom are fungi that often grow where? | wet soil or on dead trees |
Mushrooms get ______ from the decaying trees and return some ______________ to the ecosystem | energy, nutrients |
A predator is a consumer that gets its energy by? | eating other animals |
Most of the food that a plant makes is made where? | plant's leaves |
What is Earth's primary energy source? | Sun |
A green substance that traps energy from the sun is called | Chlorophyll |
Where is Chlorophyll stored | in the chloroplasts of plant cells |
Carbon dioxide + water Light energy/chlorophyll--- sugar + oxygen | Photosynthesis equation |
sugar + oxygen ------energy + carbon dioxide + water | Cellular respiration equation |
What is a nonnative species? | a plant or animal that does not grow naturally in an ecosystem |
What is it called when limits are put on how many animals a person can hunt and fish? | Regulation |
Plants make food during this process | photosynthesis |
Plants and animals get energy from food through this process | cellular respiration |
How do organisms interact in ecosystems? | Through competition and predator-and-prey relationships |
What do food chains and food webs show? | movement of energy |