Ecosystem Flashcards

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What is a commuinity?

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Where a group of different organisms live and interact with each other in ONE PLACE.

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What is an ecosystem?

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The living and non living things in an environment and their interactions.

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An animal or plant’s special role in their habitat is called their?

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Niche

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When a tadpole lives in the water and then on land when it becomes a frog, it is changing its?

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Niche

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Learned, instinctive behaviors are___________? An animal may change these to meet different needs.

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Behavioral adaptations

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By passing laws to protect habitats, we can best help to?

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Protect and increase wildlife populations

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Habitat destruction is the main reason that animals become?

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Endangered or threatened

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_____________ such as bacteria break down dead trees to return the material to the food chain.

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Decomposers

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Plant, tadpole, fish, snake describe what a ______________ may look like.

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Food chain

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What feature of an animal’s skull would it use to grind food?

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Its teeth

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An adaptation is a certain body part or behavior that helps an animal?

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Survive in its environment.

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A community is a group of organisms in one place that?

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Live and interact together.

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The energy that flows through the food web starts with?

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The sun

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An animals shape, color, and special features or attributes such as the claw on a bear are called?

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Structural adaptations

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If one plant species disappear from its community, how would that community be affected?

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There would be a decrease in the number of consumers.

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When a caterpillar becomes a butterfly, how is one way it’s niche changes?

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It now eats different food

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During their lives, plants and animals go through many stages, this is called their___________ ?

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Life cycle

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An animal that is good at defending itself would probably have these structural adaptations?

A

Sharp teeth and claws

18
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In a dry area, a plant would do best there if it could?

A

Hold water for a long time.

19
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Name some things that a human could do that would not harm the ecosystem.

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Ride a bike, take pictures, or go for a walk.

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All of the organisms in a community acting as producers, consumers, and decomposers make up a?

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Food web

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Even though an animal does not eat plants, they still depend on plants because?

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They eat animals that eat plants.

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Organisms depend on the _________ of many other organisms in a community.

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Survival

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The area in which an animal lives in is its?

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Habitat

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Food, water, shelter and space, and the things that an animal needs in their?

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Habitat

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A niche can have how many organisms in it?

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Only one

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What is a plant called in the food chain or web?

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A producer.

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Learned, instinctive behaviors are?

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Behavioral adaptations

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Communities of organisms, and the niches that relate to each other within it are called?

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Ecosystems

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All living things have their life needs met within their?

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Ecosystem

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Ecosystems include all living and _____________ things.

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Nonliving

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Human activity can have either a ____________ or ____________ affect on an ecosystem.

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Positive, negative

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Conserving resources, using land wisely or using appropriate waste disposal are ____________ activities.

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Positive

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Polluting, cutting down trees, or habitat destruction are ______________ activities.

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Negative

34
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______________ is passed from one organisms to another when the first organism is eaten

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Energy

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The greatest amount of energy in a community is the ___________.

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Producers