Chapter 4 Ecosystems

What are the nonliving things that surround a living thing?

• community

• environment

• population

What are all the living things in one area?

• community

• environment

• population

What are all the living things of one kind that live in one area?

• community

• environment

• population

What does a habitat NOT include?

• food

• water

• rocks

A living thing that makes its own food and gets its energy from the sun is a ____________.

• producer

• consumer

• carnivore

A living that that gets it energy by eating other living things is a ______________.

• producer

• consumer

• decomposer

God uses predators to keep an ecosystem _____________.

• in balance.

• endangered

• extinct

Which example shows movement of energy through a food chain?

• sun - plant - mouse - raccoon

• plant - sun - mouse - raccoon

• mouse - raccoon - sun - plant

A food web is _____________________.

• many food chains linked together.

• what spiders do with their prey.

• how plants get their energy.

Which is an omnivore?

• bird

• owl

• fox