Food webs
What is the main source of energy for most ecosystems?
What is the sun?
What organisms make their own food through photosynthesis?
What are producers?
What is a period of little to no rain called?
What is a drought?
What do we call an organism that is hunted and eaten by another organism?
What is Prey?
What is it called when people cut down large numbers of trees?
What is Deforestation?
What is a series of organisms that transfer energy by eating one another?
What is a food chain?
What type of consumer eats only plants?
What is a herbivore?
What gas is most associated with global warming?
What is Carbon dioxide (CO2)?
What term describes an organism that captures and eats other organisms for food?
What is a preditor?
What type of pollution is caused by trash and chemicals entering rivers, lakes, and oceans?
What is Water pollution?
What is a network of interconnected food chains called?
What is a food web?
What type of consumer eats both plants and animals?
What is an omnivore?
What is the gradual process by which an ecosystem changes and develops over time?
What is ecological succession?
What is a species that has a large effect on its ecosystem despite its relatively small population size?
What is a Keystone species?
What gas released by burning fossil fuels contributes to climate change?
What is Carbon dioxide (CO2)?
In a food chain, what happens to energy as it moves from one level to the next?
What is decreases or lost as heat?
What organisms break down dead matter and recycle nutrients?
What is a decomposer?
What is it called when all members of a species die out?
What is extinction?
What term describes an organism's role or job within an ecosystem?
What is an ecological niche?
What is it called when harmful gases trap heat in Earth's atmosphere?
What is the Greenhouse effect?
What term describes an organism at the top of a food chain with no natural predators?
What is an apex predator?
Give an example of a decomposer.
What are fungi, bacteria, earthworms, ect?
What is the gradual change in Earth's average temperature called?
What is Climate change or Global warming?
What occurs when two organisms compete for the same limited resource?
What is Competition?
What process occurs when human activities cause animals and plants to lose their natural homes?
What is Habitat destruction?