Ecosystems

The place where an organism lives that provides it with shelter, food and water.

• ecosystem
• population
• community
• habitat

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All the members of one type of species in a specific area.

• habitat
• community
• population
• ecosystme

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What is an ecosystem?

• A group of animals that are the same species.
• Soil, water, air and sunlight
• All the living and non living things that interact in an area.
• North America

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An ecosystem is made up of _______ and ________ things.

• Living and nonliving
• Alive and dead
• Plants and animals
• Land and water

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The way energy is passed from one organism to another

• food chain
• energy
• extinct
• habitat

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Which of the following is NOT a consumer

• grass
• dog
• shark
• fish

What is the role of decomposers in a food chain?

• Use sunlight to make food
• Eat other organisms to gain energy
• Make the food for the whole food chain
• Break down dead organisms and add nutrients to the soil

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Producers get their energy from the ______.

• water
• Sun
• eating animals
• eating plants

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Which of the following is a characteristic that all mammals share?

• they all have a pouch
• they all have a cloaca
• they all have hair
• they all have a short gestational period

Mammals are cold blooded
True or false

• False
• True