Interdependence of Animals and Plants - Questions

Competency Goal 1: Students will have an understanding of the interdependence of plants and animals.

Questions:

1. Organisms that produce their own food through the process of photosynthesis are called______________________.

2. Individual organisms of the same kind living in the same environment form a ____________________.

3. A _______________ shows the relationships between many different food chains in a single ecosystem.

4. An ecosystem is made up of a community and its_________.

5. The place in the ecosystem where each population lives.

6.  In a healthy ecosystem, populations of living things are ________.

7.  The types and number of animals in an ecosystem are determined by the ______________.

8. A contest between organisms for limited resources is ________.

9. A __________ is a consumer that breaks down tissue of decaying organisms.

10.  Which of the following is not a natural cause for a population decline?

11.  Most declines in populations of organisms today are caused by____.

12.  Species become ___________ after a population dies out.