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Science
Ecosystems
Question | Answer |
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What are all of the populations in an ecosystem? | community |
What is the part of an ecosystem in which an organism lives? | habitat |
What is a measure of the different kinds of species in an ecosystem? | diversity |
What is an organism that makes its own food? | producer |
What is an organism that eats other organisms? | consumer |
What is a group of organisms of the same species? | population |
What is a group of connected food chains in an ecosystem? | food web |
What is the best name for a display of all living and nonliving things interacting in a pond? | pond ecosystem |
Which is an abiotic part of an ecosystem? trees squirrels rocks trees | rocks |
Which of these would usually be prey for a hawk? mouse or zebra the zebra or hare the mouse or hare the spring fly or the zebra | mouse or hare |
What determines the location of biomes? | both altitude and latitude |
Which statement about the ecosystem is NOT accurate? ecosystems are always very large ecosystems have both biotic and abiotic parts an ecosystem can contain populations and communities an ecosystem is made up of all living and nonliving things | ecosystems are always very large |
Energy loss occurs at each level of a food chain. How is this energy loss best shown? | in an energy pyramid |
On an African Plain, which organism is a producer? | grass and plants |
If the grass doesn't grow well, what can you infer will happen to the rabbits and hawks? | a decline in the rabbit population and a decline in the hawks |
What might you learn by comparing winter temperature data from one year to the next in a biome? | changes could affect the growth of the grass and consumers |
What is a relationship when one organism lives off another organism? | parasite/host |
What does the parasite usually do to the host although it usually doesn't consume the host? | deprive the host of energy and nutrients |
A parasite is usually **** than its host. | smaller |
Land cools and warms quickly; water cools and heats slower than the land? What does water also do? | Add precipitation |