A non-living factor: Temperature, Sunlight, Wind, Soil, etc...
What is abiotic?
The branch of science that studies ecosystems and the relationship between living organisms and their surroundings.
What is Ecology?
Organisms that create their own food.
What is a producer?
What are consumers?
Organisms that break down dead organisms
What is a decomposer?
Any living factor in an ecosystem: This includes bacteria, protists, fungi, plants and animals
What is an organism?
TRUE OR FALSE: PHOTOSYNTHESIS ONLY happens in plants.
What is false? (There are bacteria that are capable of PHOTOSYNTHESIS)
TRUE OR FALSE: Plants are the ONLY organisms capable of PHOTOSYNTHESIS.
False, some bacteria can also be producers.
Which one is the consumer: sunlight, ferns, rabbits, mushrooms?
What are rabbits?
TRUE OR FALSE: Insects can be decomposers
What is True?
Producers take in sunlight energy, carbon dioxide and water to make glucose and oxygen
What is PHOTOSYNTHESIS?
True or False: Ecosystems are made up of living and non-living factors.
What is true?
Which one is a producer? Sunlight, fern, rabbit, mushroom
What is a fern?
What is the difference between a primary consumer and a secondary consumer?
The difference is primary consumers are herbivores and secondary consumers are carnivores.
Which one is the decomposer: sunlight, ferns, rabbits, mushrooms?
What are mushrooms?
All organisms have the same FOUR requirements. What are they?
Food, water, shelter (living space), and gases (oxygen or carbon dioxide)
A scientist that studies ecology
What is an ecologist?
How do producers help an ecosystem?
Producers are the beginning of the food chain.
What are the 3 types of consumers?
What are herbivores, omnivores, carnivores?
How do decomposers help an ecosystem?
Decomposers help the ecosystem by breaking down dead organisms and creating soil.