Habitats and Ecosystems Review
1. What are the basic needs of all animals?
2. Explain what a habitat is.
3. What does an ecosystem contain?
4. Describe what is in a community.
5. Explain how do you get the population of an organism?
6. Name 4 different habitats and the organism that would live there.
7. Name 4 different ecosystems and some of the living and nonliving things
that live there.
8. All food chains begin with a producer. What is a producer?
9. What is a consumer and give an example of three.
10. What is a decomposer and give examples.
11. Compare and contrast the basic needs of an animal to a plant. (This is a
good time to use a T-chart)
12. Explain the difference between a food chain and a food web.
13. This is the food chain in a certain ecosystem:
grasses ------ rabbit ------ wolf ------ decomposers.
Explain what would happen to the population of each of these organisms if
the fish and game service suddenly opened a year round wolf season, in
which wolves could be hunted and killed.
14. Describe some of the adaptation differences between predator and prey.
15. Animals, insects, and plants adapt to their environment differently.
Some of these adaptations are body parts and some are behaviors.
A. Explain what an adaptation is.
B. Pick an animal or insect.
C. Describe 2 adaptations of a body part of the organism you picked and 1
behavioral adaptation.
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