Science test food chains Flashcards
What effect would a drought have on plants and animals?
Their would be a decrease in the animals that eat the plants and animals.
Why are plants less likely to grow at the bottom of an ocean?
Their is less sunlight at the bottom
What do herbivores and carnivores have in common?
They are both consumers.
sun - grass- rabbit - fox - ecosystem. If we added more foxes, which population will immediately DECREASE?
Rabbit population.
Which energy sources begins each food chain?
Sunlight
What would most likely happen if we moved plants from a grassland into a tundra?
The plants would die
Which limiting factor most affects plant growth on the forest floor of a rain forest?
Sunlight
An omnivore in a forest eats both berries and fish. Which best describes the energy transfer within the ecosystem?
The berries produce energy that is transferred to the omnivore when it eats the berries
What would probably happen if we removed all producers from an area?
Consumers die and the food web collapses (dies)
Which would mostly likely cause rabbits to overpopulate (too many) in an area?
Above average rainfall increases grass growth
Which of these IS NOT abiotic?
leaves
