ch 5 ecosystems

Question 0

The process by which plants use water, carbon dioxide, sunlight to make its own food is

Answer 0

photosynthesis

Question 1

Any plant that does photosynthesis to make its own food

Answer 1

producer

Question 2

Any animal that must eat some kind of food to get energy

Answer 2

consumer

Question 3

An organism that consumer wastes or dead organisms to get energy

Answer 3

decomposer

Question 4

an animal that eats only plants

Answer 4

herbivore

Question 5

An animal that eats only meat

Answer 5

carnivore

Question 6

An animal that eats both meat and plants

Answer 6

omnivore

Question 7

A group of organisms of ONE SPECIES that live in an area at one time

Answer 7

population

Question 8

All the populations in an area make up a

Answer 8

community

Question 9

All the living and nonliving things in an area

Answer 9

ecosystem

Question 10

The place in an ecosystem in which an organism ives and has all of its needs met is a

Answer 10

habitat

Question 11

The place or job that an organism has in an ecosystem

Answer 11

niche

Question 12

An animal that is eaten by another animal is a

Answer 12

prey

Question 13

A carnivore that hunts, captures and kills his prey is a

Answer 13

predator

Question 14

A relationship between living organisms

Answer 14

symbiosis

Question 15

The passing of ENERGY throught the environment. It starts with the sun and goes to the producers first nd then to the consumers

Answer 15

food chain

Question 16

A group of many food chains joined together

Answer 16

food web

Question 17

The amount of food, water, space, or shelter available in an ecosystem

Answer 17

limiting factors

Question 18

The number of organisms that can live in one place

Answer 18

carrying capacity

Question 19

A diagram that shows the amounts of energy that flows through each level of a food chain

Answer 19

energy pyramid

Question 20

A VERY LARGE ECOSYSTEM that has its own climate and its own plants and animals

Answer 20

biome

Question 21

The biome that has hot daytime temperatures and cold nighttime and very little rain

Answer 21

desert

Question 22

The coldest biome. It has no trees and the ground is frozen

Answer 22

tundra

Question 23

The biome that contains mostly evergreen and conifer trees

Answer 23

taiga

Question 24

The biome in which we live

Answer 24

Deciduous forest

Question 25

The biome that has more plants and animals than any other biome

Answer 25

tropical rain forest

Question 26

Trees that change color in the fall and then lose their leaves for winter

Answer 26

Deciduous forest

Question 27

The biome that is characterized by tall grasses and herds of herbivores like the cattle who graze

Answer 27

grassland

Question 28

Draw and label a food chain using the following: owl, plant, snake, mouse, mushrooms. Draw using arrows and label each one as producer, consumer, and decomposer.

Answer 28

mouse eats plant, snake eats mouse, owl eats snake, mushroom
consumer producer con con con con decomposer

Question 29

If an owl eats mice, what would happen to the population if the mice would die out from disease?

Answer 29

If mice die from disease then the owl population would decrease because the mice are the main thing for the owl to eat.

Question 30

This biome receives lots of rain but it’s temperatures can be quite cool.

Answer 30

Temperate rainforest