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  • What kind of plants and animals would you find in a grassland?
    Grass In a prairie-prairie dogs, bison In a Savanna-Grasses and Acacai-lions, zebras, gazelles and giraffe
  • Which organisms in a food web get their energy from dead things?
    Scavengers maybe decomposers
  • What is the difference between biotic and abiotic factors?
    biotic-living Abiotic-non-living
  • Why might a lightning strike cause fires in a grassland?
    it is dry and has lots of grass
  • Give 3 examples of abiotic factors in an ecosystem.
    Sun, Soil, Temp, Water
  • What happens if one part of an ecosystem is removed?
    It affects all of the ecosystem
  • What do producers need to make their own food?
    To start off food chains
  • What do animals release back into the environment when they breathe or make waste?
    Carbon Dioxide
  • How are forests and grasslands alike?
    They have shelter and resources for plants and animals
  • Why do some desert animals live underground?
    grasslands-to avoid fires and predators
  • What do consumers eat?
    plants, meat, or both
  • How do herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores differ?
    What they eat
  • How are swamps and marshes different?
    Trees in swamps grasses in Marshes
  • Why do both living and nonliving things matter in an ecosystem?
    they interact and make each system unique
  • In a food chain, what comes first: producers or consumers?
    Producers
  • Give one example of each: producer, consumer, and decomposer.
    Teacher Check
  • Why are estuaries important to ocean life?
    shelter for babies
  • What are some examples of producers, consumers, and decomposers in a pond?
    algae and plants, fish & turtles (consumers) , bacteria
  • If the number of plants suddenly dropped, how would that affect animals?
    Herbivores decrease first and then that goes along the food chain or food web
  • Describe what you might see, feel, and hear in a deciduous forest.
    changing leaves, crunching leaves under foot, deer, squirrel, bear, fox, wind in leaves
  • What happens to matter and energy when an organism dies?
    Decomposers break it down and release it to soil and atmosphere
  • What is the job of decomposers?
    Break down dead things into nutriments
  • Give 3 examples of biotic factors.
    Teacher Check
  • What would happen if decomposers disappeared?
    dead stuff would pile up and choke out all living things
  • How do decomposers help plants grow again?
    break down dead things and release nutrients to soil
  • Which organisms use sunlight to make food?
    Producer
  • Which two ecosystems get very little rain?
    desert and Tundra
  • In a forest food chain, which animal gets energy from the rabbit?
    Carnivore (maybe an omnivore)
  • What might you see in an estuary?
    crabs, fish, birds
  • What is the correct order of energy flow in a food chain?
    Sun-Producers-Herbivores-carnivores/omnivores-decomposers
  • How is a tropical rainforest different from a deciduous forest?
    rain, the number of plants and trees, animals
  • Which ecosystems are most common in North Carolina?
    estuary, deciduous forest, ocean
  • Why is the Sun important to all food chains?
    gives energy to producers, the beginning of food chains
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