Select the three things that environments provide to animals and plants.
When beavers construct their dams, there are helpful effects and harmful effects to the habitat. Sort these effects as either helpful or harmful.
Life downstream of the pond will suffer due to the decreased water flow in the stream caused by the dam.
Aquatic species such as fish, turtles, and frogs will benefit from increased amounts of water.
Helpful Effects
Harmful Effects
Think of a prairie habitat with buffalo, deer, wolves, rabbits, and lots of grasses. What might happen in the ecosystem if the wolves were trapped and removed? Select all that are true.
If humans over-hunted a population of insect-eating birds, what immediate change would happen?
If humans cleared a forest and built homes , which of the following would happen to the forest?
A factory polluted the water supply in an area, what change can be observed in that ecosystem?
What is a negative result from bringing pigs to the Hawaiian rainforest ecosystem?
How could beavers building a dam cause an increase in fish population? The dam -
How might removing the alligators from a swamp habitat create a decrease in vegetation?
A highway is built through a forest. How will this affect the organisms in the area?
Scientists found that raccoon populations increased where houses were built. Why is this?
Sort the items on the left to the matching definition on the right.
Community
Invasive
Environment
Extinction
A nonnative animal that moves into a new place
The space, condition, living and non-living things around an organism
A species or group of animals that disappear and are no longer found
Groups of plants and animals that live in the same area and interact with each other
Sort the items on the left to the matching definition on the right.
Consumer
Producer
Omnivore
An animal that eats both plants and animals
A plant that makes its own energy
Animals that do NOT make their own energy
Select all three of the following effects of deforestation in the Amazon Rain Forest.
Select all three effects of overgrazing.
Each of the following can result in reduction or contamination of aquifers except -
Overpopulation occurs when there are more organisms than environments can sustain. This -
Human interaction such as building roads, homes, and fences causes which of the following?
Select ALL that are true.
If all producers (plants) are removed from an environment what will be a logical result?
What is the effect of a new, stronger plant to an environment?
What happens when a new consumer is introduced into an environment?
What happens as humans destroy animals' environments?
Select all THREE of the following ways that humans negatively impact the environment.
Woodpeckers are native to Texas. Select all THREE of the negative impacts for Woodpeckers.
When human interaction in an environment occurs all of the following are options except
What happens when you remove prey from a grassland ecosystem?
Select the correct definition for each word.
The number will go down. | The number will go up. | |
|---|---|---|
Decrease | ||
Increase |
Humans are part of the ecosystem and therefore impact it. Which of the following events in an ecosystem may produce a negative effect?
Which of the following is a way humans can positively impact ecosystems?