In this food chain, this
organism produces its own food
using energy from the sun.
What is the grass?
Example of a marine ecosystem?
What is the Monterey Bay Kelp Forest?
Layer of gases surrounding Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
A community of living and non-living things interacting with each other.
What is an ecosystem?
An organism that eats other organisms for food and energy.
What is a consumer?
What is the top predator in
this aquatic food web?
What is a seal?
This sphere.
What is the geosphere?
This is what happens to dead plants and animals in an ecosystem.
What is eaten by decomposers?
Types of decomposers.
What are grinders and finishers?
Difference between prey and predator.
Prey is an animal that is haunted and eaten by another animal for food.
Predator is an animal that hunts and eats other animals for food.
Interacting spheres.
What are the biosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and geosphere?
Producer in the food chain from the Monterey Bay ecosystem.
What is phytoplankton?
What would happen if
people used a pesticide
to kill all of the
grasshoppers?
What is 'unbalance the ecosystem because all the bluebirds would die causing the snakes to die which would cause all the owls to die because they would not have their food sources.
The producer in this food web.
What is phytoplankton?
A volcano erupts and spews ash and emits hydrogen sulfide, hydrogen chloride, hydrogen fluoride, mercury, and other harmful gases into the air.
The volcano a part of ___________ and is it interacting with ____________.
What are the geosphere and the atmosphere?
Nonliving part of an ecosystem that the organisms depend on to live.
What is moisture or temperature or wind?
Grinders job.
What is 'reduce dead matter to into small particles'?
Difference between zooplankton and phytoplankton.
zooplankton are microscopic animals in an aquatic environment.
phytoplankton are microscopic plants in an aquatic environment.
Another name for the geosphere.
What is the lithosphere?
This type of decomposer reduces dead organisms into simple chemical nutrients.
What is a finisher?