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Ecology!

Chapter 21 Ecology Ecosystems Energy Transfer Food Webs Interactions And Relationships Vocabulary 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500

Ecosystems 100 An ecosystem is includes both biotic and ___________ factors.

What is an abiotic factor Ecosystems 100 A What is an abiotic factor

Ecosystems 200 A biome that has little rainfall, is cold at night and very hot in the daytime.

Ecosystems 200 A What is desert?

An organism that eats only plants… Ecosystems 300 An organism that eats only plants…

Ecosystems 300A What is an herbivore?

Ecosystems 400 A biome that has a lot of rainfall, many tall trees, lots of insects and is near the equator… .

Ecosystems 400A What is a rainforest?

Ecosystems 500 Name three biomes.

Ecosystems 500A What are ocean, tundra, rainforest, temperate forest, desert, grassland, freshwater, etc.?

Most of Earth’s energy can be traced back to this celestial body. Energy Transfer 100 Most of Earth’s energy can be traced back to this celestial body.

Energy Transfer 100A What is the Sun?

Energy Transfer 200 The type of organism that makes it’s own food from minerals, water and sunlight is a ______________________.

Energy Transfer 200A What is a producer.

The type of organism that eats only animals (meat-eater). Energy Transfer 300 The type of organism that eats only animals (meat-eater).

Energy Transfer 300 A What is a carnivore?

Energy Transfer 400 Name a decomposer.

What is fungi, worm, or mushroom? Energy Transfer 400A What is fungi, worm, or mushroom?

Name a decomposer, a producer and a consumer. Energy Transfer 500 Name a decomposer, a producer and a consumer. Answer

Energy Transfer 500 A Decomposers: fungi, mushroom, bacteria, microbes, worms, vulture. Producers: green plants Consumer: dog, man, frog, deer, etc.

What is the producer in this food web? Krill fish plankton Answer Whale Seal

Food Web 100A What are plankton?

Food Web 200 A simple model that shows how energy from food passes from one organism to another is a ________.

Food Web 200A What is a food chain?

The name of the kind of organism that eats only bugs. Food Web 300 The name of the kind of organism that eats only bugs.

Food Web 300A What is insectivore.

Food Web 400 Name a Producer and a Consumer. Answer

Food Web 400A What are producers - sea weed and plankton. What are consumers – all the rest.

Food Web 500 The amount of energy that is passed from one level on the food pyramid to the next…

Food Web 500A What is 10%

Interactions and Relationships 100 The arrows in a food chain represent...

Interactions and Relationships 100A What is the direction of the energy flow – what eats what?

Interactions and Relationships 200 Name 3 characteristics of living things.

Interactions and Relationships 200A What is reproduce, have cells, DNA, use energy, grow, react to the environment, evolve, maintain homeostasis.

Interactions and Relationships 300 Name a food you eat that would be considered a producer.

Interactions and Relationships 300A Answers will vary. Plant foods.

Interactions and Relationships 400 What produces carbon dioxide (CO2)?

Interactions and Relationships 400A What is plants or producers, cars, factories.

Interactions and Relationships 500 Give a possible limiting factor for an aquarium. Answer

Interactions and Relationships 500A What is oxygen, food, space, algae, light, heat, salt (for a salt water tank).

Vocabulary Calculate the population density when the are 1000 turtles on an island that is 500 sq. km. Answer

Vocabulary 100A What is 2 turtles/sq. km.

Vocabulary 200 The water cycle starts with water on land, this water evaporates, becomes clouds, condenses, then falls as ___________. Answer

Vocabulary 200A What is precipitation?

Vocabulary 300 All of the individuals of one type that live in a place at the same time. Answer

Vocabulary 300A What is a population?

Vocabulary 400 Pick the one that is not an invasive species. English Holly Butterfly Bush Red-Eared Slider Turtle Butterflies Answer

Vocabulary 400A What is d. Butterflies?

Vocabulary 500 If life has been around for 3.5 billion years why have we not run out of water? Answer

Vocabulary 500A What is - the water is recycled again and again.

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