Ecosystems 1
An organism that eats meat
What is a Carnivore
An organism that uses sunlight to create its food
What is a producer
any animal that feeds mainly on plants; plant-eater
What is a herbivore?
Bears, humans, raccoons, many birds are this type of organism, based specifically on which foods they eat
What is an omnivore?
an organism that hunts, kills, and eats other organisms
What is a predator
This is the name we give an ecosystem when it has lots of variety and healthy levels of poplation.
What is biodiversity or balance of nature?
An animal that feeds on dead and decaying animals
What are decomposers or scavengers?
Plants use this process to turn light into chemical energy
What is photosynthesis?
In a food web the mushroom and bacteria are....
What are decomposers?
Where all organisms energy can be traced back to in a food web
What is the Sun?
Animals that only eat plants
What are herbivores?
If all the plants died in an ecosystem this would eventually happen to all the animals.
What is die also?
bacteria, fungi, worms, ants, beetles, sow bugs
What are some examples of decomposers?
Food chains that is interconnected/overlaps in a particular ecosystem
What is a food web?
At the bottom of the food pyramid, what are those organisms called
What are producers
What happens to energy when you move through the different trophic levels
The energy level goes down
The living and nonliving things and the ways they interact in an environment (ex: redwood forest, swamp, Mojave Desert)
What is an ecosystem?
On the pyramid what is the organism that eats the producer called
What are primary consumers?
The 3 things plants need for photosynthesis
What are water, carbon dioxide and Sun?
Living things in an ecosystem are called...
What are organisms?
An animal that eats plants or other animals and does not make its own food.
What is a consumer?
An area that is suitable for a particular organism to live in is called....
What is a habitat?
Organisms that eat both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
Organisms that are supposed to live in a certain ecosystem
What is a native species?
This is when all the organisms in the ecosystem seem to have a moderate population and there is a variety of organisms in an ecosystem.
What is the balance of nature or biodiversity?
This is the name for the species, when removed from an ecosystem causes a dramatic impact on all the other animals in the ecosystem.
What is a Keystone Species?
This terrestrial biome contains the most diversity of plants and animals
What is the Tropical Rainforest?
This is the name for when a predator impacts the lower level consumers and producers in a food chain or food web.
What are Trophic Cascade?