Ecosystems

Plants are called ____________ because they can make their own food.

What do plants use to get energy to make food?

A population includes...

Which is a producer?

Different organisms along with their entire environment make up...

All living things...

Which is a consumer?

How would a typical food chain be affected if all the plants died?

Which is an example of symbiosis?

Which is the correct order from simplest to most complex?

Without _____________ there would be no life on Earth.

A scorpion eats an insect. In this relationship, the scorpion is the...

Organisms that feed on dead matter are called...

Three things that plants use during photosynthesis are water, sunlight and carbon dioxide.

All living things reproduce.

A snake eats a grasshopper, and then an owl eats the snake. What is the snake?

Predators and prey are both...

In the winter, some animals go into a deep sleep called...

All the populations in an area make a...

A beaver builds a dam. Which statement summarizes the effects of the dam on the ecosystem?

Which kind of living thing returns nutrients to the soil?

What is photosynthesis?

Nearly all kinds of animals' food can be traced back to producers.

A group of organisms that produce other organisms of the same kind is a(an)

Which example describes how on organism interacts with another to get energy in an ecosystem?

What do decomposers feed on?

What is the gas that plants give off during photosynthesis?

All the individuals of a type of organism living in an area make...

If a habitat becomes smaller, what is a likely result?

Which organism is both and predator and prey?

Which of the following is a consumer?

What does the arrow in a food web indicate?

All animals are _________________ because they eat plants or other animals.

An organism is...

A food web shows...

The environment that supports a population is called its...

Plants store the food that they make in their leaves.

From where do the living things on Earth receive most of their energy?

Which feature would most help a predator?

What is the process called by which plants make food?

All living things depend on sunlight because...

Body parts and behaviors that help an organism survive are...

Which of the following is a consumer?

All the living and nonliving factors that surround an organism form its...

Lions are...