Chapter 6 Ecosystems/Biomes

Question 0

What is a habitat?

Answer 0

A place that provides all the living things an organism needs to live.

Question 1

What is an ecosystem?

Answer 1

All living and non living things in an area and their interaction.

Question 2

What is a population?

Answer 2

A group of organisms of one species.

Question 3

What is a community?

Answer 3

The group of all populations in an area.

Question 4

What is ecology?

Answer 4

A branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms.

Question 5

What is a predator?

Answer 5

A consumer that hunts and eats other animals.

Question 6

What is prey?

Answer 6

Animal hunted by others for food.

Question 7

What is a producer?

Answer 7

An organism that makes their own food.

Question 8

What is consumer?

Answer 8

An organism that can’t produce their own food and rely on producers.

Question 9

What’s a decompser?

Answer 9

Organisms that get energy by breaking down dead waste and dead organisms.

Question 10

What is food chain?

Answer 10

A series of steps that show how energy moves from one living thing to another.

Question 11

What is a food web?

Answer 11

A diagram that combines many food chains.

Question 12

What is environment?

Answer 12

All the conditions surrounding an organism.

Question 13

What is competition?

Answer 13

The fight between organism for limited resources.

Question 14

What is Pollution?

Answer 14

Any substance that damages the environment.

Question 15

What is Conservation?

Answer 15

To protect an environment from harmful changes.

Question 16

What is abiotic?

Answer 16

Non living organisms

Question 17

What is biotic?

Answer 17

Living organisms

Question 18

List the following from smallest to largest:

Population, organism, ecosystem, community

Answer 18

Organism, population, community, ecosystem

Question 19

Describe the biome: desert

Answer 19

Very hot and dry. An example of an organism that can live there is cactus because the cactus can store water.

Question 20

Describe the biome: tundra

Answer 20

Very cold. An animal that can live there is the artic fox because their thick coats help with the cold.

Question 21

Describe the biome: tropical rain forest

Answer 21

Warm and rainy. The shapes of the leaves help collect rain water.

Question 22

Describe the biome: taiga

Answer 22

Harsh, very cold winters and soil is low in nutrients. Squirrels can live off the berries and insects.

Question 23

Describe the biome: mixed forest

Answer 23

Has 4 distinct seasons. Raccoons, deer and bears are common here.

Question 24

Describe the biome: prairie

Answer 24

Plains of grass. Prairie dogs live here because they have sharp claws to dig.

Question 25

Describe the biome: coastal wetland

Answer 25

Water partly covers the land. Frogs live here because they can survive in the water.

Question 26

What's another name for taiga and mixed forest?

Answer 26

Boreal forest and deciduous forest

Question 27

Scientist that studied chimps?

Answer 27

Jane Goodall

Question 28

What is one ecosystem in MO and list 3 biotic and abiotic factors in that system?

Answer 28

Mixed forest (deciduous forest) Biotic factors: trees, animals, grass Abiotic factors: air, water, sunlight

Question 29

Describe an energy flow:

Answer 29

Producer-primary consumer-secondary consumer-tertiary consumer-decompser- back to producer

Question 30

Why are decomposes important?

Answer 30

They return energy to other organisms.

Question 31

Give an example of a food chain:

Answer 31

Grass-rabbit-hawk

Question 32

What's the difference between a food chain and a food web?

Answer 32

Food chain describes energy flow in one direction. A food web shows many food chains and how they interact.

Question 33

Give an example of a producer:

Answer 33

Grass

Question 34

Give an example of a primary consumer:

Answer 34

Deer

Question 35

What's an example of a secondary consumer?

Answer 35

Coyote

Question 36

What's an example of a decomposer?

Answer 36

Bacteria

Question 37

Describe 3 types of symbiosis:

Answer 37

Commensalism: a relationship where one species gets something from another without harming the other. (Spider gets to build a web in a tree, but doesn't harm the tree) Parasitic: one species takes from another without killing the host. (A mosquito bites a human for a meal, human loses blood but survives) Mutualistism: both species benefit. (Bees get nectar from flowers while spreading pollen)

Question 38

Describe 3 natural occurrences that may cause change in an ecosystem:

Answer 38

Rocks being broken down by weather; lightening strike causing a forest fire; locusts eating farm fields.

Question 39

What are ways humans can affect an ecosystem?

Answer 39

Pollution is a negative affect while new plants and animals is positive.

Question 40

What are two ways humans can protect an environment?

Answer 40

Regulations (rules) and conserve (protect)

Question 41

How does a non native affect an ecosystem?

Answer 41

They can cause harm because they didn't grow there naturally.