Chapter 4 Science

Question 0

Omnivore

Answer 0

Animals that eat plants and animals

Question 1

Ecosystem

Answer 1

All living things and non living things in an area that interact with each other.

Question 2

Food web

Answer 2

Overlapping food chains

Question 3

Ecology

Answer 3

Study of interactions between living things and their environment

Question 4

Evaporation

Answer 4

Process where a liquid changes into a gas

Question 5

Carbon cycle

Answer 5

Continuous transfer of carbon between the atmosphere and living things

Question 6

Habitat

Answer 6

Place where organism lives

Question 7

Prey

Answer 7

A living thing that is hunted for food.

Question 8

Condensation

Answer 8

Process where gas changes to a liquid

Question 9

Herbivore

Answer 9

Animals that eat plants

Question 10

Decomposers

Answer 10

Organisms that break down dead matter

Question 11

Niche

Answer 11

What a species eats and the kind of environment it needs to live in helps determine the niche of an animal

Question 12

Food Chain

Answer 12

Where energy is passed from producers to consumers to decomposers

Question 13

Bacteria play an important role in which cycle?

Answer 13

Nitrogen Cycle

Question 14

Evaporation occurs in which cycle?

Answer 14

Water cycle

Question 15

Burning fossil fuels releases what into the air?

Answer 15

Carbon dioxide

Question 16

Know examples of precipitation

Answer 16

Rain, snow, sleet and hail

Question 17

What is composting

Answer 17

Recycling plant materials

Question 18

What do scavengers do?

Answer 18

Feed on remains of dead animals

Question 19

What do carnivores eat?

Answer 19

Other animals

Question 20

What are abiotic and biotic factors?

Answer 20

Abiotic - Non living, Biotic - Living

Question 21

What makes up a population

Answer 21

All the members of one species in an area

Question 22

What is a community?

Answer 22

All the populations of animals living in an area

Question 23

What are predators?

Answer 23

Animals that hunt other animals

Question 24

What are consumers and what types of animals are consumers?

Answer 24

Animals that eat producers. Lizards, hawks, rabbits, lions etc.

Question 25

What are renewable and nonrenewable resources?

Answer 25

Renewable - Can be replaced, Nonrenewable cannot be replaced

Question 26

Why do we need to conserve both renewable and nonrenewable resources?

Answer 26

We need to conserve both because nonrenewable resources will eventually be used up and renewable resources take awhile to replace/grow back.

Question 27

When a farmer sprays chemicals to get rid of the insects on his farm, how does this affect other animals in the area?

Answer 27

This disrupts at least one and probably more than one food chain. Other insects that are eaten by the insects killed would be affected. Chemicals could pollute nearby water sources