A Thing About Plants
What happens if plants grow too close together?
Their roots would tangle, and there would be less nutrients in the soil.
How do predators depend on prey?
How do we know that fungi are not plants?
They do not make their own food.
This is an animal eaten by other animals.
Prey.
This is a type of single celled organism.
Bacterium
Why is it advantageous if vines grow in the trees?
Because there is extra sunlight.
How do prey depend on predators?
The keep their population under control.
Remember the stem career reading about fungi. What would happen if nothing decomposed?
Dead materials would pile up.
This is a place where plants and animals live.
Habitat.
This is an organism that breaks down dead plant and animal material.
Decomposer.
It must make its own food.
Abiotic.
What would happen if you leave fruit and/or vegetables in a sealed mason jar?
They will grow mold.
This is the ability to do work or change something.
Energy
These are plant-like organisms that get energy from other organisms which may be living or dead.
Fungi
These are pores at the bottom of leaves that open and close to let in air or give off water vapor.
Stomata
This is a living thing in an ecosystem, such as a plant, an animal, or a bacterium.
Biotic factor.
How does fundi break down dead plant material?
They destroy cell walls and eat the material.
This is a nonliving part of an ecosystem.
Abiotic factor.
This is a scientist who studies fungi.
A mycologist.
This is the release of water vapor through stomata of a plant.
Transpiration
This is an animal that hunts another animal for food.
Predator.
Name a kind of fungi.
Mushroom, yeast, mold.
is an organism that is introduced to a new ecosystem and causes harm.
Name two kingdoms that are famous for being decomposers.
Bacteria and Fungi