Ecosystem

Question 1

Environment

Answer 1

All living and non living things around an organism is its environment.

Question 2

Adaptation

Answer 2

An adaptation is a structure of behavior that allows a species to survive and reproduce in its environment.

Question 3

Species

Answer 3

Species have the same general physical characteristics and other adaptations.

Question 4

Population

Answer 4

Each population contains all the organisms of the same kind of community.

Question 5

Ecosystem

Answer 5

An area in which living and non living things interact.

Question 6

Community

Answer 6

Organisms that live together in an ecosystem make up a community.

Question 7

Niche

Answer 7

The role that each species plays in its community is its niche[ job]

Question 8

Biotic

Answer 8

Living things in an ecosystem, things that are alive like animals and people.

Question 9

Abiotic

Answer 9

Non living things in a ecosystem, things that are not alive.

Question 10

Habitat

Answer 10

A habitat is a animals home where they find food

Question 11

Biome

Answer 11

Biomes are regions of the world with similar climate animals, and plants.

Question 12

Tundra

Answer 12

The tundra biome is the coldest biome on earth and it covers 1/5 of the earth.

Question 13

Deciduous Forest

Answer 13

The deciduous forest has four seasons, and the average temperature is 50 degrees Fahrenheit.

Question 14

Tropical Rainforest

Answer 14

The tropical rainforest is located close to the equator. And the average temperature is 70 to 85 Fahrenheit.

Question 15

Grasslands

Answer 15

The weather there varies greatly. It is cold in the winter and hot in the summer. The most important plant s GRASS.

Question 16

Desert

Answer 16

The desert covers about one fifth of the earth. Deserts are both very hot and very cold with very little rainfall.

Question 17

Taiga

Answer 17

The taiga is the largest land biome on earth. And it has short, wet summers.

Question 18

Carnivore.

Answer 18

Animals that only eat meat.

Question 19

Herbivore

Answer 19

Animals that only eat plants.

Question 20

Omnivore

Answer 20

Animals that eat both plants and animals.

Question 21

Producer

Answer 21

Organism that use the Suns energy to make their own food.

Question 22

Consumer

Answer 22

Are organisms that get energy from eating producers, or other consumers.

Question 23

Decomposers

Answer 23

Are organism that consume dead plants and animals.

Question 24

Food Web

Answer 24

A group of inter connecting food chains.

Question 25

Food Chain

Answer 25

Food chains show how energy is passed from the sun, to the producers, from producers to consumers.

Question 26

Predator

Answer 26

A predators are animals that hunt other animals for food.

Question 27

Prey

Answer 27

Prey is the food of the predator.

Question 28

Energy pyramid

Answer 28

Is a model that uses a pyramid shape to show that the energy available for consumers decreases as it travels through a typical food chain or web.

Question 29

Tertiary

Answer 29

This level is at the top of the food chain and it feeds on the secondary consumer.

Question 30

10% rule

Answer 30

When energy is passed through an ecosystem.

Question 31

Symbiosis

Answer 31

A relationship which two different organisms live in close association with each other.