Parts of an Ecosystem
The term to refer to the non-living part of an ecosystem.
What is abiotic?
The name of organisms like plants that form the base of food chains.
What are producers?
The name of organisms that get their food by consuming waste and dead organisms.
What are decomposers?
Any organism that exists by hunting other organisms.
What are predators?
or What are consumers?
The term that refers to the differences in individuals of the same species.
What is genetic diversity?
The process by which plants capture the sun's energy and turn it into food and create oxygen.
What is photosynthesis?
The series of processes (like rain, evaporation, condensation) that moves water through the environment.
What is the water cycle?
A _________________ includes all animals of a species.
What is population?
A non-native species that has a negative impact on the natural environment?
What is an invasive species?
The name of a biome found in the north.
What is artic biome?
In a food web the term used to describe animals who eat plants and other animals
What is consumers?
The series of processes that moves carbon compounds throughout the lithosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere.
What is the carbon cycle?
Bacteria and animals that eat dead animals.
What are decomposers?
The term that refers to unplanned and disorganized urban growth into the countryside.
What is urban sprawl?
The 3 categories all living things in an ecosystem can be placed in.
What are producers, consumers, and decomposers?
What are food chains?
The term to refer to any place where matter is stored.
What is a reservoir?
a character in a Dr. Suess story who speaks for the trees.
Who is the Lorax?
Commercial fishing has an impact on which type of ecosystem.
What is aquatic or wetland ecosystems?
Name 3 abiotic parts of the Arctic ecosystem.
What are light, weather, and soil?
What is ice, temperature and soil?
A graphical representation of what-eats-what in an ecological community.
What is a food web?
Coal, limestone, ocean sediments, oil and natural gas are examples of ___________________.
What are carbon deposits?
or What are abiotic elements?
An abiotic factor that plants compete with each other for.
What is light or water?
The mammal in our biosphere who is responsible for protecting the environment?
What are humans?