Grade 4 Review Sheet Chapter 3

Grade 4 review sheet – chapter 3

In addition to the questions listed below, be certain to look over your notes as well as the chapter review sheets done in class and review the chapter in the textbook.

1. What does the term ecosystem mean?

2. What are the living parts of an ecosystem?

3. What are the nonliving parts of an ecosystem?

4. What does the term population mean?

5. What does the term community mean?

6. What does the term niche mean?

7. What does the term herbivore mean?

8. What does the term omnivore mean?

9. What does the term carnivore mean?

10. What does the tem decomposer mean?

11. What does the term scavenger mean?

12. What are some characteristics of a desert ecosystem?

13. What are some characteristics of a grassland ecosystem?

14. What are some characteristics of a tundra ecosystem?

15. What are some characteristics of a forest ecosystem?

16. What are some characteristics of a tropical rain forest ecosystem?

17. What is the difference between a habitat and a niche? Give an example of each.

18. How is energy passed in an ecosystem?

19. What is the difference between a producer and a consumer? Give an example of each.

20. Are all producers plants? Explain.

21. What is the difference between a predator and prey? Give an example of each.

22. What supplies the energy at the beginning of most food chains? 23. What is a food chain? Be able to explain what is happening at each part in a simple food chain.

24. What is a food web? Be able to explain what is happening at each part in a food web.

25. What would happen if an ecosystem had only producers and consumers?

26. How does matter flow in an ecosystem?

27. What is the difference between a freshwater ecosystem and a marine (saltwater) ecosystem?

28. What are some characteristics of a swamp? Is this a freshwater or saltwater ecosystem?

29. What are some characteristics of a shallow ocean area (where a coral reef may be found)?

30. What are some characteristics of a deep sea ecosystem?

31. What does the term decay mean? Why is this important in any ecosystem?

32. What factors affect the rate of decay in an ecosystem?