Abiotic and Biotic
1. What is the difference between abiotic and biotic factors in an ecosystem?
2. Give three examples of abiotic factors and three examples of biotic factors.
3. How can abiotic factors affect living things in an environment?
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Individual, Population, Community, Ecosystem
4. What is an individual (species) in an ecosystem?
5. What is a population, and how is it different from a community?
6. What is a community in an ecosystem?
7. What makes up an ecosystem?
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5 Needs of Living Things
8. What are the five basic needs of living things?
9. Why is water important for living things?
10. How do living things depend on energy to survive?
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Interactions Among Living Things
11. What are some ways living things interact with each other?
12. What is competition, and why does it happen in ecosystems?
13. What is a predator-prey relationship? Give an example.
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Producers and Photosynthesis
14. What is a producer? Give an example.
15. How do producers make their own food?
16. What is photosynthesis, and why is it important?
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Consumers and Types
17. What is a consumer? How is it different from a producer?
18. What do herbivores eat? Give two examples.
19. What do carnivores eat? Give two examples.
20. What do omnivores eat? Give two examples.
21. What is a detritivore? How is it different from a decomposer?
22. What does a decomposer do in an ecosystem?
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Food Chains and Food Webs
23. What is a food chain?
24. What is the order of a simple food chain?
25. What is a food web, and how is it different from a food chain?
26. Why are food webs more accurate than food chains?
27. What are the different types of succession and define them.