Ecosystem Flashcards
What is a commuinity?
Where a group of different organisms live and interact with each other in ONE PLACE.
What is an ecosystem?
The living and non living things in an environment and their interactions.
An animal or plant’s special role in their habitat is called their?
Niche
When a tadpole lives in the water and then on land when it becomes a frog, it is changing its?
Niche
Learned, instinctive behaviors are___________? An animal may change these to meet different needs.
Behavioral adaptations
By passing laws to protect habitats, we can best help to?
Protect and increase wildlife populations
Habitat destruction is the main reason that animals become?
Endangered or threatened
_____________ such as bacteria break down dead trees to return the material to the food chain.
Decomposers
Plant, tadpole, fish, snake describe what a ______________ may look like.
Food chain
What feature of an animal’s skull would it use to grind food?
Its teeth
An adaptation is a certain body part or behavior that helps an animal?
Survive in its environment.
A community is a group of organisms in one place that?
Live and interact together.
The energy that flows through the food web starts with?
The sun
An animals shape, color, and special features or attributes such as the claw on a bear are called?
Structural adaptations
If one plant species disappear from its community, how would that community be affected?
There would be a decrease in the number of consumers.
When a caterpillar becomes a butterfly, how is one way it’s niche changes?
It now eats different food
During their lives, plants and animals go through many stages, this is called their___________ ?
Life cycle
An animal that is good at defending itself would probably have these structural adaptations?
Sharp teeth and claws
In a dry area, a plant would do best there if it could?
Hold water for a long time.
Name some things that a human could do that would not harm the ecosystem.
Ride a bike, take pictures, or go for a walk.
All of the organisms in a community acting as producers, consumers, and decomposers make up a?
Food web
Even though an animal does not eat plants, they still depend on plants because?
They eat animals that eat plants.
Organisms depend on the _________ of many other organisms in a community.
Survival
The area in which an animal lives in is its?
Habitat
Food, water, shelter and space, and the things that an animal needs in their?
Habitat
A niche can have how many organisms in it?
Only one
What is a plant called in the food chain or web?
A producer.
Learned, instinctive behaviors are?
Behavioral adaptations
Communities of organisms, and the niches that relate to each other within it are called?
Ecosystems
All living things have their life needs met within their?
Ecosystem
Ecosystems include all living and _____________ things.
Nonliving
Human activity can have either a ____________ or ____________ affect on an ecosystem.
Positive, negative
Conserving resources, using land wisely or using appropriate waste disposal are ____________ activities.
Positive
Polluting, cutting down trees, or habitat destruction are ______________ activities.
Negative
______________ is passed from one organisms to another when the first organism is eaten
Energy
The greatest amount of energy in a community is the ___________.
Producers
