Science Ms. C - Study Guide Quiz 1

Science - Study Guide Quiz 1 - Habitats, Ecosystems, and Energy

Ecosystem

• An ecosystem is how living and nonliving factors interact in an environment

• Biotic - Living factors in an ecosystem

• Abiotic - Non-living factors in an ecoystem

What are abiotic and biotic factors?

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Habitat

• A habitat is where animals live to meet their needs

• A habitat can be small (Ex. under a rock - insects)

• A habitat can be large (Ex. across a continent - migrating birds)

• Habitats can overlap (Ex. snakes, sagebrush, and tarantulas all can live in a desert habitat)

What is a habitat?

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Food Chain

• Living things depend on one another to live

• Every food chain starts with producers

• Consumers eat the producers

• Other consumers eat consumers

Explain the steps of a food chain with an example of a producer, consumer(s), decomposer. (ex. 1. grass, 2. bunny, 3. wolf, 4. mushroom)

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Producers and Consumers

• Producers make their own food (ex. plants)

• Consumers must consume or eat their own food. (ex. deer, people, sharks)

Explain what producers and consumers are.

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Predators and Prey

• Predators is a consumer that eats other animals

• Prey is a consumer that is eaten

What is the difference between a predator and prey?

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Types of Consumers

• Herbivore - Only eats producers (plants)

• Carnivore - Only eats meat

• Omnivore - Eats both meat and plants.

Name the three types of consumers and give an example of each.

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Decomposers

• Feeds on dead things

• Ex. fungi, bacteria, worms

• Decomposers clean up waste and make waste nutrients for producers.

Why is it important that there are decomposers?

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Pollution

• Pollution is something that is harmful to an environment

• Ex. fumes from cars, chemicals in water

What is pollution and give an example?

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Natural Resources

• Natural resources are found in nature without the help of humans (ex. gold, water, oil, air, timber, soil)

Give as many examples of natural resources as you can.

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