Chapter 4: Ecosystem

Match the following

• the place where an organism lives

• Environment

• the study of organisms in their environment

• Habitat

• surroundings; for organism, anything external to organism that affects it

• Ecosystem

• a network of interactions between living and non-living things

• Adaptations

• features of an organism that help it to survive and reproduce in its habitat

• Ecology

What is an ecosystem

• A group of animals that are the same species

• All the living and non living things that interact in an area

• soil, water, and sunlight

• North america

An individual living thing is a/an

• habitat

• organism

• ecosystem

• nectar

The place where an organism lives is its

• habitat

• ecosystem

• environment

• ecology

grass is a ____

• producer

• consumer

• facilitator

• pollinator

Which one is an example of an ecosytem

• a deer

• a group of deers

• a group of deers, the sun, rabbits, the lake, the soil, a bird, a tree

• a group of deers, rabbits, a bird, and a tree

What is a predator?

• an animal who kills and eats other animals

• an animal who is killed and is eaten by other animals

What would most likely happen in the ecosystem shown in the food web if the fox population significantly increased?

• The population of bees would increase.

• The population of mice would increase

• The population of black bears would increase

• The population of mice would decrease

The food web shows the flow of energy through a terrestrial ecosystem. Which of the organisms shown in the food web is a predator of deer?

• rabbit

• fox

• chipmunk

• plant

• owl

Consists of all the living and non-living things with which an organism may interact.

• Ecology

• Habitat

• Environment

• Ecosystem