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Organisms in their Environment - Study Guide
1. Imagine you were doing an experiment to see if plants needed water, air, light
and minerals to survive. How could you test what would happen if your plants did
not have minerals in their habitat?
2. Draw a food web for a woodland ecosystem using the following plants and
animals: deer, wolf, grass, grasshopper, rabbit, snake, mouse, hawk, and dandelion.
3. Who are the producers in the woodland ecosystem?
4. Who are the consumers?
5. Describe harmful relationships between organisms in an ecosystem. Give one
example.
6. Explain how an ecosystem can be effected by a change to it food web.
7. Why is it important to keep the food web/chain intact? (hint: think about
population ).
8. Explain why animals have adaptations such as different coloring, eyes, and
physical features. Give an example for both predator and prey.
9. Explain the difference between predators and prey.
10. What is a herbivore?
11. What is a omnivore?
12. What is a carnivore?