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1. Ecology Food Web Food Chain Ecosystems Water Cycle Hodge Podge 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500

2. What is Ecology?

3. Ecology is the Scientific Study of how organisms interact with their environment and all other organisms that live in that environment.

4. What is an Organism? .

5. An Organism is an individual living thing, made up one or many cells, that is capable of reproducing.

6. Microorganisms and fish are a few ________ that make up a ponds ecosystem. Cycles Abiotic Factors Biotic Factors Climate

7. C. Biotic Factors

8. What is an Abiotic factor? Name 3 examples.

9. An Abiotic factor is a nonliving part of an ecosystem. Examples: Light, Solid, Temperature, Water

10. DAILY *DOUBLE*

11. Describe how temperature, light, and soil affect an Ecosystem.

12. They determine the abundance amount of plant life.

13. What are the 3 main parts of a Food Chain?

14. 1. Producers 2. Consumers 3. Decomposers

15. What do Producers make? Give 2 examples of a Producer.

16. Producers make their own food. Examples: Trees and Plants

17. Name the 3 different types of consumers. You must also give an example for each.

18. 1. Herbivore, planter Eater (Rabbit) 2. Carnivore, meat eater (lion) 3. Omnivore, eats plants and meat (Bear, Humans)

19. What is a decomposer?

20. A decomposer is an organisms that breaks down dead plants and animals.

21. Explain what would happen in an ecosystem if all of the carnivores were killed off? What would happen to the rest of the animals?

22. At first the herbivores would become over populated in their ecosystem; and then they would eat more food (plants) that the land could produce. They would mostly likely starve.

23. What is an Ecosystem?

24. An ecosystem is a particular environment and all living things that are supported by it.

25. What kind of ecosystem will support the most amount of life? Temperate Tropical Arctic Dry

26. B. Tropical

27. Name at least 5 different types of Ecosystems.

28. 1. Tropical Rain Forest2. Desert 3. Mountain4. Ocean 5. Forest

29. Describe the role of producers, consumers, and decomposers in an Ecosystem.

30. Producers make sugars using sunlight. Consumers will eat producers and other consumers. Decomposers break down dead producers and consumers.

31. DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!

32. Explain why a Food Web provides a better model of an ecosystem than a Food Chain.

33. Food Webs show that one organism can have more then one role in an ecosystem.

34. What does the word “Cycle” in Water Cycle refer to?

35. A repeating process

36. Which of these is not a part of the WATER CYCLE? Photosynthesis Precipitation Condensation Evaporation

37. A. Photosynthesis

38. Explain the 3 basic steps of the Water Cycle.

39. The water Evaporates and becomes a gas. Then the gas condenses and changes back to a liquid to form a cloud of water vapor. When the cloud get too heavy the water returns to the Earth in a form of Precipitation.

40. Plants take in _______ to make sugar- a process called photosynthesis. Oxygen Soil Carbon Dioxide Dead plants and animals

41. C. Carbon Dioxide

42. Explain why the Water Cycle is so important for life on Earth.

43. All Plants and animals need water survive! Where there is water you will find life. .

44. Which best describes the components of an Ecosystem? light, water, soil & temperature Autotrophs and Heterotrophs Biotic and Abiotic Factors Producers, Consumers & Decomposers

45. C. Biotic and Abiotic Factors

46. What is the primary energy for all ecosystems?

47. THE SUN

48. Which of these is a Decomposer? Vulture Sunflower Musk Ox Fungi

49. D. FUNGI

50. What is the process called how a plant uses the Sun’s energy and Carbon Dioxide to make food?