Zoo Unit Vocabulary

The asian carp is now located in our american rivers. It has been harmful to the ecosystems it has entered and become overpopulated. It is an example of......

• Physical Change
• Habitat
• Organisms
• Invasive Species

A natural home for an organism.

• Ecosystem
• Habitat
• Biome
• Zoo

An area comprised of living and nonliving (abiotic and biotic) factors. 

• Ecosystem
• Habitat 
• Biome
• Zoo

non-native (or alien) organism to the ecosystem under consideration and whose introduction causes or is likely to cause economic or environmental harm.

• Animal
• Biotic
• Invasive Species
• Limiting Factor

A physical change to the environment would be.....

• Rainfall in the ecosystem
• Abiotic Factors in the ecosystem
• Human Construction in an ecosystem
• Climate

Biological changes in the ecosystem would be....

• Cutting down trees & building a dam
• Invasive species and planting new plants 
• Rainfall and moderate climate 
• Deserts and rainforests

Dams, construction, pollution, and oil towers new to an environment are considered......

• Bad
• Physical Changes
• Biological Changes
• Ecosystems

To maintain an ecosystem means to.....

• Keep it in balance 
• Overpopulate
• pollute
• make big changes

In a grassland ecosystem ___________ is the top predator.

• rhino
• zebra
• gazelle
• lion

_______________ may fall prey to a hawk. 

• Coral Reef
• Lion
• Mouse
• ant