Ecology

Question 1

The scientific study of the relationship between living things and their environment is called ______________.

Answer 1

ecology

Question 2

Living things are called ________________.

Answer 2

organisms

Question 3

All organisms need food, water, shelter, and ______________ to survive.

Answer 3

space

Question 3

Communities of living and nonliving that that interact in certain environments are called ___________________.

Answer 3

ecosystems

Question 3

What is this antelope’s adaptation to survive in the open savanna?

Answer 3

speed

Question 4

Arctic lands are called the ______________.

Answer 4

tundra

Question 5

What is the fish’s adaptation to survive in water?

Answer 5

gills

Question 6

What type of tree loses its leaves?

Answer 6

deciduous

Question 7

What type of tree has pine cones and pine needles?

Answer 7

coniferous

Question 8

Which animals or living organisms eat other living things?

Answer 8

consumers

Question 9

Which animals are consumers that break down dead animals and plants?

Answer 9

decomposers

Question 10

What is the process where green plants use light to turn water and carbon dioxide into food?

Answer 10

photosynthesis

Question 11

What are the animals that make their own energy and provide their own nutrients?

Answer 11

producers

Question 12

All of the energy in our world can be traced back to the _____________.

Answer 12

sun

Question 13

The connecting steps in a food chain are called __________ levels.

Answer 13

trophic

Question 14

What are consumers that eat only plants called?

Answer 14

herbivores

Question 15

What are consumers that eat only meat called?

Answer 15

carnivores

Question 16

What is the name of a consumer who eats plants and animals called?

Answer 16

omnivores

Question 17

What is always on the bottom trophic level of a food chain?

Answer 17

producers

Question 18

Where do producers get their energy from?

Answer 18

the sun

Question 19

Who makes up the second trophic level of the food chain?

Answer 19

omnivores and herbivores

Question 20

Who is at the third trophic level of the food chain?

Answer 20

carnivores

Question 21

What are mushrooms, insects, and microorganisms examples of?

Answer 21

decomposers

Question 22

In science, this word means a state of balance.

Answer 22

equilibrium

Question 23

What would happen if hawks suddenly disappeared off the planet?

Answer 23

The mice population would grow and be out of control.

Question 24

What is it called when nature is thrown out of balance?

Answer 24

disequilibrium

Question 25

What happened when humans killed the white-tailed deer's predators off?

Answer 25

The deer population grew out of control.

Question 26

If something is changing slowly over a long period of time it is _______________.

Answer 26

gradual

Question 27

If something shows little or no change, it is _______________.

Answer 27

static

Question 28

On the energy pyramid, which group has the most energy?

Answer 28

producers

Question 29

On the energy pyramid, which group has the least energy?

Answer 29

carnivores

Question 30

There are more ___________ than any other group of living organisms at the 2nd trophic level.

Answer 30

insects

Question 31

A long period of little or no rain that causes damage to plants, animals, and people.

Answer 31

drought

Question 32

Seasonal heavy rains in the Indian Ocean and in southern Asia.

Answer 32

monsoons

Question 33

A sudden event in nature that causes terrible damage.

Answer 33

natural disasters

Question 34

Dangerous ocean waves often caused by an underwater earthquake.

Answer 34

tsunami

Question 35

What is it called when people clear a huge amount of the trees from the forest.

Answer 35

deforestation

Question 36

What does agriculture mean?

Answer 36

Having to do with farming.

Question 37

What does manufacturing mean?

Answer 37

creating

Question 38

What word means unable to be renewed?

Answer 38

nonrenewable

Question 39

What word means able to be replaced by nature?

Answer 39

renewable

Question 40

What are the people called whose job it is to protect and care for something or someone?

Answer 40

stewards

Question 41

Air, wood, and water are _______________ resources.

Answer 41

renewable

Question 42

Coal, oil, and gas are _____________ resources.

Answer 42

non-renewable

Question 43

The natural underground areas containing fresh water are called ______________.

Answer 43

aquifers