200 pt 300 pt 400 pt 500 pt 100 pt 200 pt 300 pt 400 pt 500 pt 100 pt 200pt 300 pt 400 pt 500 pt 100 pt 200 pt 300 pt 400 pt 500 pt 100 pt 200 pt 300 pt 400 pt 500 pt 100 pt What’s for Dinner Relationships Environmental Problems What’s for Lunch? Ecosystems of The World
A hawk eats a mouse. Who is the predator?
The Hawk
A mouse eats grass. A hawk eats a mouse. What is this an example of?
Food Chain
Who gets their energy from breaking down dead organisms?
Decomposers
If a cow eats grass, who is the consumer?
The cow
Who gets their energy from using sunlight, water, and nutrients from the soil to make their food?
Producers
A remora attaches itself to a shark to get a free ride. What kind of relationship is this?
Commensalism
A tomato hornworm is eaten from the inside by young wasps. What kind of relationship is this?
Parasitism
A follicle mite may live in 97% of people’s eye lashes or eye brows. It can consume skin cells for energy. What kind of relationship is this?
Parasitism
Certain bacteria live in your intestines. This type of bacteria takes in nutrients from food that you eat and gives you vitamins. What kind of relationship is this?
Mutualism
Ants collect food made from the Acacia tree and protect the tree from potential predators. The tree has learned to produce this food and ants learned how to protect the tree over a long period of time. What kind of relationship is this?
Coevolution
If a number of trees is significantly reduced in a forest, what type of gas would increase?
Carbon dioxide
What has increased due to better farming techniques and advances in medicine?
The human population growth
What happens when sulfur dioxide mixes with moisture in the air and falls to the earth as rain, snow, or sleet?
We get acid rain.
An Asian carp makes its way into the Great Lakes after swimming through the Chicago Ship and Sanitary Canal. The Asian carp is a nonnative species. What kind of organism is this?
An exotic species
What is the removal of trees on a large scale called?
Deforestation
A rose is a plant that makes its energy from sunlight. What type of organism is this?
Producer
A mushroom absorbs matter from a dead organism. What type of organism is this?
Decomposer
A rabbit eats grass. What type of organism is the rabbit?
Herbivore
A bear eats berries and fish meat. What type of organism is this?
Omnivore
A coyote eats a prarie dog. What type of organism is this?
Carnivore
A group of rabbits, foxes, squirrels, hawks, and worms interact in an area. What level of the environment is this?
Community
All of the ecosystems of the world are put together. What level of the environment is this?
Biosphere
All of the living things and abiotic factors of an area make up this level. What level of the environment is this?
Ecosystem
A group of rabbits live in an area. What level of the environment is this?
Population
A single zebra muscle is found in Lake Michigan. What level of the environment is this?
Organism