Ch. 8 Ecosystems

Several food chains linked together is a food ___________.

Living things grow, develop, interact, and ____________ with things around them.

An ecosystem stays balanced when _______________ control population sizes.

All living and nonliving things and the environment in which they interact is an ________________ .

Fish and berries are resources that meet a bear's need for ____________.

There is a competition between animals when they share the same limited ______________.

All the populations, communities, and habitats make up an ecosystem.

A living thing that makes its own food and gets its energy from the sun is a consumer.

An animal that eats both plants and animals is called an omnivore.

An animal that eats only plants is called a carnivore.

Put the following in the correct order of a food chain

When on part of the food web changes it affects ___________ the web.

A pineapple plant is a _____________________.

A cause of change in an ecosystem could be ________________ .

A food chain is the movement of _______________ from one living thing to another.

A characteristic that helps an organism survive in a changed ecosystem is a ____________________.