Ecosystem Vocabulary

Which animal are you most likely to see in a forest?

• camel
• dolphin
• squirrel
• penguin

Tall rainforest trees block sunlight from reaching the forest floor.  Which adaptation would allow short plants to get more sunlight?

• burrow under the ground
• spread their seeds in the wind
• climb up high on other plants

All life requires air, food and water.  Which ecosystem will probably have the least amount of plant and animal life?

• forest 
• desert
• ocean
• rain forest

What is a habitat?

• only living things
• only non living things
• provides a population with all of its needs
• provides a population with some of its needs

If a fire burned a PART of a forest, which of these would probably happen?

• all of the animals would die
• all of the plants and seeds would be destroyed
•  a flood would bring new, rich soil
• the animals would move to a new ecosystem

Which of these is an example of a population

• all lilypads in a pond

• lilypads, waterlillies, that live in a pond

• lilypads, dragonflies, waterlillies that live in a pond

• lilypads, waterlillies, frogs and dragonflies that live in a pond

Why do very few plants grow in the desert?

• the soil is dry and it does not rain much there
• there is not enough animals
• there is too much rainfall
• the weather is too hot during the day and too cold at night

What is an ecosystem?

• everything around a living thing
• the living and the nonliving things that interact in an environment
• only the living things that interact in an environment
• only the non-living things that interact in an environment

How might a snowy ecosystem change if the temperature grew warmer?

• more animals would adapt to have white fur

• more plants could grow in the soil

• more fish would try to live on the land

A forest that has mostly conifer trees and stays green all year . . . 

• coastal forest
• tropical rain forest
• coniferous forest
• deciduous forest