Ecosystems

Question 1

A living thing thing is called an ____________

Answer 1

Organism

Question 2

Give me some examples of organism

Answer 2

A mouse, an insect, a human, a bacteria

Question 3

A group of very similar organisms

Answer 3

Species

Question 4

It means to have offspring or babies; only members of the same species can do it

Answer 4

Reproduce

Question 5

The place where an organism lives; surroundings and environment

Answer 5

Habitat

Question 6

Place that protects you from bad weather or danger

Answer 6

Shelter

Question 7

T or F

Only big environments can be considered habitats

Answer 7

F

Even a drop of water can be a habitat

Question 8

Needs

Answer 8

Requirements

Question 9

Why do organisms live in different habitats?

Answer 9

Because they have different requirements for survival

Freshwater, deserts, oceans

Question 10

Hot and wet

Answer 10

Tropical

Question 11

T or F

Animals can move to different places within their habitats

Answer 11

True

Frogs begin as tadpoles in the water and then go to land

Question 12

Small lake

Answer 12

Pond

Question 13

All the members of one species in the same area

Answer 13

Population

Question 14

Which butterflies migrate from western Canada to Mexico

Answer 14

Monarch butterflies

Question 15

All the populations that live together in one place

Answer 15

Community

Question 16

A group of whales is a __________ while the combination of plants and animals are a _____________

Answer 16

Population

Community

Question 17

T or F

In a community, different kinds of organisms cannot use the same resources (water, shelter, food)

Answer 17

False

Question 18

An ____________ is made up of living and nonliving things

Answer 18

Ecosystem

Question 19

Water, soil, air, sunlight, rocks are

Answer 19

Nonliving things

Question 20

Give an example of how living and nonliving things interact in an ecosystem

Answer 20

Plants take water and soil

Animals breathe oxygen

Question 21

These kind of organisms use energy from sunlight to make their own from water and CO2

Answer 21

Producers

Question 22

Producers make food through

Answer 22

Photosynthesis

Question 23

Organisms cannot make their own food; they eat other organisms

Answer 23

Consumers

Question 24

They eat only plants (deer, horses, birds)

Answer 24

Herbivores

Question 25

They eat only animals (lions, spiders and snakes)

Answer 25

Carbivores

Question 26

A type of carnivore that eats dead organisms (vultures and catfish)

Answer 26

Scavengers

Question 27

They eat plants and animals (crows and bears)

Answer 27

Omnivores

Question 28

Organisms that break down dead plants and animals, which are changed into nutrients that go back to the soil.

Answer 28

Decomposers

Question 29

Who uses the nutrients that go back to the soil?

Answer 29

Plants

Question 30

What are the two main kinds of decomposers?

Answer 30

Bacteria and fungi

Question 31

The movement of food through a community

Answer 31

Food chain

Question 32

T or F | A food chain always begins with consumers

Answer 32

False

Question 33

Describe an example of a food chain

Answer 33

Algae to small fish to big fish | Plant to insect to bat to owl to decomposers

Question 34

T or F | Every part of the food chain is necessary

Answer 34

True