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| All the interactive living and Non living things in an area describes a(n)______________ |
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| The Study of How everything in an ecosystem interacts in order to survive is called_________________ |
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| A Nonliving factor in an ecosystem is called a(n)___________factor. |
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| Light, water, soil, Temperature, air,and minerals |
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Abiotic factors in an ecosystem include:
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| Living Things need __________, such as calcium, iron and phosphorus. |
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| Animals need____________to produce the energy for their bodies. |
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| The Living parts of an ecosystem are called _______________factors. |
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| Living organisms that produce oxygen and food that animals need are called _____________ |
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| Animals, or ____________,produce the carbon dioxide that plants need. |
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| Decomposers break down dead organisms and produce ___________that enrich the soil |
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| Long ago, the prairie was a "sea of wild "_____________" |
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| Native Americans once hunted_______on the prairie lands. Today cattle and crops live there. |
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| About _________species of animals live on the Blackland Prairie. |
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| Pipts, longspurs, horned larks, and abput 300 other kinds of _________ live on the Black Prairie. |
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| All the organisms of a species living in the same area make up a(n)____________. |
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| All the population of living organisms in an area make up a(n)____________. |
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| The place where an organism lives is called its ________________. |
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| What a Species eats and what eats that species is part of its _________ or role in the ecosystem. |
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| The eastern spadefoot toad has hind feet shaped like spades so it can dig for ____ during a drought. |
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| Prairie soild can often be identified by their rich, dark, ______, or top layer of soil. |
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| Partly decayed plant matter that enriches the prairie soil is called ________. |
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| The nutrients in some prairie soils tend to stay near the _____ because low rainfall doesnot carry nutrients deep into the ground |
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| ex : trees,mushrooms,deer frogs,small plants |
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| Name three biotic factors |
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| ex: soil,rocks,water,clouds,sun |
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| Name three abiotic factors |
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| all living and nonliving things in an area that interact with each other |
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| the study of how living things and their environment interact |
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| a living part of an ecosystem |
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| a non-living part of an ecosystem |
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| all the organisms of one species that live in an area at the same time |
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| all the population living in an area |
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| the area in which an organism lives |
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| the role of an organism in its community |
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| They will either die or have to move to a new habitat. |
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| What will happen to the worm when the parking lot is poured? |
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| A natural habitat for worms, birds,and other animals,as well as grass and other plants are lost.New Stores and other resources for people are gained. |
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| What is lost when a new store is built?What is gained? |
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| If worms are gone the birds have to find a new food source. |
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| Birds eat worms. How does the new shopping center affect local birds? |
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| All the living and nonliving things in an area interacting with each other is a(an)__________. |
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| The study of how living things and their environment interact is called ________. |
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| The nonliving parts of an ecosystem are ___________ factors. |
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| All living things require __________ to stay alive. |
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| Living things also need ____________ such as iron and calcium. |
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| Algae and plants must have sunlight to make _____. |
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| Plants and algae need water and also Carbon _____________. |
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| Animals require oxygen to produce the __________ their bodies need. |
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| All the energy in an ecosystem comes from the _______. |
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| The energy of the Sun is stored in the ___________, which is passed from one organism to another. |
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| The path that energy takes from producers to consumers to decomposers is called a(n) _____________. |
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| On a prairie, the food chains start with ________ , which produces food during ____________ |
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| A food web shows the relationship between all ________ in a community. |
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| Food Chains overlap into a(n)___________. |
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| Organism that use the Sun's energy to make their own food are called __________. |
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| In oceans, the main producers are ________. |
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| Organism that cannot make their own food are ___________. |
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| Consumers that eat producers are called ______________. |
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| Animals that eat other animals are called ____________. |
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| Living things that hunt other living things are ____________. |
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| Hunted by other animals are called ____________. |
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| ____________ feed on the remains of the dead animals instead of hunting. |
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| Animals that eat both animals and plant are _________________. |
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| Food chains end with ____________, which break down dead matter. |
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| A change in one _____________ affects all the organisms in that food chain. |
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| Animals may be adapted to change in their _____________. |
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| ____________ ______________ help scientist predict how communities will be affected by change. |
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| Florida anoles were threaten when a new, bigger species of anole somehow arrived from __________. |
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| The Florida anole found a new _________ high up in the tree tops. |
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| Energy ___________ as it passes from one organism to another in a food chain. |
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| A(n) __________ shows there is less food at the top than at the bottom. |
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| Scientist have determined that ______ percent of the energy is lost from one level of an energy pyramid to the next. |
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| The ocean turns red when a group of algae called ______________. |
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| Poison from algae can ______ fish and make humans sick. |
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| Where does the food chain start? |
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| the path of energy in the food from one organism to another. |
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| the overlapping food chains in the community |
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| an animal that eats only plants |
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| an animal that eats only plants |
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| a living thing that hunts other living thing for food |
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| a living thing that is hunted for food |
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| an animal that feeds on the remaining of the dead animals |
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| an animal that eats both plants and animals |
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| the original source of energy in an ecosystem. |
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| use the Sun's energy to make their own food |
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| organisms that cannot make their own food |
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| breakdown dead matter into substances that can be used by producers |
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| Describe where plants, humans and cows would be located on an energy pyramid. |
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| Which level of energy pyramid has the most organisms? |
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| The plants would not get eaten and humans who eat beef would have to find another source. |
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| What would happen if suddenly all the cows disappear? |
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| In communities, organism compete for food. This competion means that many small food chains in an ecosystem may __________ each other. This creates a food _____________. |
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| All food webs have ______________, which make their own food. They rely on ___________ for energy. |
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| Organisms that cannot make their own food are called _______________. |
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| Some consumers such as grasshoppers, are _______________ which eat producers. others like cats are _______ |
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| Predators ____________ other living things called prey for food. |
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| Some meat eaters known as __________ eat the remains of dead animals. |
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| People are _____________ because they eat both plants and animals. |
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| Every food chain and food web ends with __________ which break down wastes. |
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| Heat energy makes water ___________ and rise into the air. |
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| When cooled enough, water vapor ________ into a tiny water droplets. |
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| Droplets that become so large and heavy that they can no longer stay up in the air fall to Earth's surface as _____________. |
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| Water stored in soil and rock is _____________ |
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| Water flowing downhill across the surface of Earth is called __________ |
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| The process of naturally recycling water on Earth is called the _________. |
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| Plants give some of their water back to the atmosphere through their __________. |
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| Dead trees provide _________ that other trees need. |
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| Organisms that recycle matter in the dead organisms are called _________. |
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| Decomposers breakdown dead wood into carbon dioxide and ____________, which contains nitrogen. |
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| Nitrogen is found in _____________, substances that add ___________ to the soil. |
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