Ecosystems Test 2

  1. Ecosystems
  2. All living and nonliving things in that area
  3. Interacting together
  4. Ecology
  5. Study of how these things interact in order to survive
  6. Abiotic Factors
  7. Nonliving things needed to survive
  8. Water, minerals, sunlight, air, climate, and soil
  9. Biotic Factors
  10. Living parts of the ecosystem
  11. Animals, plants, fungi, protist, bacteria
  12. Prairies
  13. Soil
  14. Rich dark soil

ii. climate- precipitation and weather

summer- dryhot

fall- dry cool

winter- snow cold

springrain warm

  1. Consumers
  2. Something that consumes(eats) plants or animals
  3. Mustang, tiger, mountain lion
  4. Gives off carbon dioxide to plants
  5. Producers
  6. Something that produces(makes) food for animals to live
  7. produces oxygen
  8. shrubs, grasses, trees
  1. Desert
  2. Soil
  3. Sand
  4. Often rich in minerals
  5. Poor in animal and plant decay

ii. climate precipitation and weather

summer dry hot

fall don’t have

winter don’t have

springdon’t have

  1. Consumers
  2. Lizards, snakes, owls, scorpions
  3. Producers
  4. Cactus, cattail, shrubs, yuccas
  1. Freshwater
  2. Soil
  3. Water
  4. Bottom would include:
  5. Sand, dirt

ii. climate

based on ecosystem they are in

  1. Consumers
  2. Cat fish, painted turtle, salmon
  3. Producers
  4. Seaweed lily pads, moss
  5. Plankton
  6. Organisms float on water
  7. Nekton
  8. Organisms swim through water
  9. Benthos
  10. Bottom-dwelling organisms
  1. Saltwater
  2. Soil
  3. Salt water

ii. climate

based on ecosystem they are in

  1. Consumers
  2. Sharks, clown fish, dolphin
  3. Producers
  4. Coral, seaweed,
  1. Rain forests
  2. Soil
  3. Nutrient poor

ii. climate

summer rain hot

fall rain warm

winterrainwarm

springrainwarm

  1. Consumers
  2. Animals that consume or eat plants or other animals
  3. Tiger, tree frog, monkey
  4. Give off carbon dioxide to plants so they can make food
  5. Producers
  6. Orchids, ferns, vines
  7. Plants & algae that produce oxygen & food animals need
  8. Consumers and producers balance out an environment
  9. Decomposers
  10. Fungi and bacteria break down dead plants & animals into minerals that enrich the soil
  11. Ends the food chain
  12. Worms, insects, bacteria, fungi
  1. Population
  2. All organisms living in the same area
  3. Organism
  4. All living things that carry out its life on its own
  5. Community
  6. All the different populations living in an area and how they interact
  7. Prey
  8. It is what an animal eats
  9. Mice eat insects
  10. Coyote eats sheep
  11. Predator
  12. What eats that animal
  13. Deer gets eaten by humans
  14. Rabbit gets eaten by coyote, hawks, wolf
  15. Ecosystem thrown off balance when a new predator enters
  16. Or prey leaves
  17. Variables that affect ecosystems
  18. Humans, birth rate, climate
  19. Habitat
  20. Place where an organism lives
  21. Frog lives in a pond
  22. Bat lives in the tree
  23. Monkey lives in a rainforest
  24. Niche
  25. Role of an organism in the community
  26. What the animal eats
  27. What eats that animal
  28. Environment needed to live in
  29. Active by day or by night
  30. Food Chain
  31. Path of energy in food from one organism to another
  32. Starts with the sun to a seed
  33. Then goes to a plant- mouse
  34. Then to a prey- cat
  35. Then to a predator-coyote
  36. Finally to a decomposer
  37. Food Web
  38. Shows relationship between all of the species of a community
  39. Map of overlapping food chains
  40. Snakes, deer, trees, rabbits, mice, insects, birds, fungi, hawks, mountain lions, grass,
  41. Herbivores
  42. Only eat plants (producers)
  43. Carnivores
  44. Animals that eat other animals
  45. Omnivores
  46. Eat both animals (consumers)
  47. And plants (producers)

Vi. Scavengers

  1. Eat meat but don’t hunt it
  2. Rely on dead animals
  3. Such as vultures, crows, hag fish
  4. Adaptations
  5. Characteristics that help an organism survive in its environment
  6. cactuses