Ecosystem Review Sheet
Ecosystem Review Sheet
Ecosystem Review Sheet
Word Bank:
1 ___________________________ The study of how living things interact with each other and their environment
6 ___________________________ An organism that obtains energy by breaking down wastes and the remains of dead organisms
7 ___________________________ The living AND non-living things that interact in a particular area
8 ___________________________ Place where an organism lives and that provides the things the organism needs to survive
9 ___________________________ An organism that obtains food and energy by eating other organisms
10 ___________________________ A model that shows how energy is transferred from one organism to another
15 ___________________________ A series of overlapping food chains that shows the eating patterns within an ecosystem
22 In this ecosystem, would you expect there to be more aphids or sparrow hawks?
23 Be able to construct a food web and identify various food chains within a food web
LEVELS OF ORGANIZATION
Identify each of the following as:
A Ecosystem B Habitat
C Community D Population
26 _____________ Only the mice, humans, earthworms, and fish in the room
27 _____________ The aquarium (wet soil with dead organisms) that the earthworms live in
SHORT ANSWER:
33 In a food chain, what direction does the arrow point (be specific: it goes from ________ to _________)?
35 Arrange the following in order from the smallest to the largest (population, ecosystem, organism, community).