Ecosystems JeopardyVocabulary Food Chain Producers

Consumers

Decomposers

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All of the same species living in the same area at the same time

Population

An organism that uses the Sun’s energy to make its own food.

ProducerBONUS! Give an example of a producer that might be found in a Coral Reef ecosystem.

A group of living and non-living things that make up one environment.

Ecosystem

All of the populations that make up one ecosystem

Community

A diagram that shows how food chains overlap and connect with each other.

Food Web

Where does all of the energy in a food chain come from?

The SUN!

Which of these organisms would NOT be in an Arctic food chain? Explain why not.

Polar BearClownfish

Arctic MossSeal

In a food chain, there is always only one ____________________.

Producer

Finish the food chain. ______________, Ladybug, Sparrow, Hawk

Make a food chain that you might find in a Coral Reef.

Would a Starfish be a producer, consumer, or decomposer?

ConsumerBONUS! What does a Starfish eat?

Name a producer you might find in a forest environment.

Which of these would most likely be the decomposer in a Coral Reef environment?

Earthworms, Sand, Algae, Bacteria

Name a producer, consumer, and decomposer that you might find in a Longleaf Pine Forest

ecosystem.

Why is there only one producer in a food chain?

There are two parts of an ecosystem. What are the two parts?

Living and nonlivingBONUS! Do these two parts of the ecosystem

interact with each other?

What would the main organism in a Rainforest ecosystem be?

Trees

Clownfish eating plankton in the Ocean ecosystem is an example of the Clown fish's

_________ in that ecosystem.

Niche

Name the five nonliving parts of an ecosystem.

Air, Soil, Temperature, Water, SunlightBONUS! How does Sunlight affect the living

parts of the ecosystem.

How do all of the populations affect each other in an ecosystem?

They all depend on each other to survive.

What is wrong with this food chain? Plankton, Arctic Cod, Penguin, Grizzly Bear

Explain.

What would happen if hunters killed all of the large birds of prey in a Forest ecosystem?

Explain.

Explain how to correct this food chain.

Sunlight, Plankton, Algae, Minnows, Trout, Brown Bear

What is a decomposer’s niche in its habitat?

What would happen if you took a Seal out of the Arctic habitat it lives in and moved it to the Gulf

of Mexico? Explain your answer.