Vocabulary
The living and nonliving things that interact in an environment.
What is an ecosystem?
The beginning group of all food chains.
What are producers?
The largest ecosystem found on Earth that includes seaweed.
What is the salt water ecosystems (oceans)?
The job of a mushroom.
What is a decomposer?
Producers are _________ energy makers.
What is largest/biggest?
A model that shows one set of feeding relationships among living things.
What is a food chain?
An animal that is hunted for food.
What is prey?
An ecosystem where would you find a dry climate, sand, and cacti year round.
What is a desert ecosystem?
What is a producer?
Energy is gained by 10% or 1/10.
What is when a consumer eats a producer or other consumer?
A model that shows many different feeding relationships among living things.
What is a food web?
A living thing that gets energy by eating other animals for food.
What are consumers?
A food web.
What is a model of plants and animals that have MANY different feeding relationships among living things?
The job of a wolf.
What is a consumer?
The transfer from one organism to another through a food chain or web.
What is energy transfer?
A model that shows the available amount of energy in each trophic layer in an ecosystem.
What is an energy or trophic pyramid?
A living thing that breaks down dead things for food.
What is a decomposer?
A model where there is ONE set of feeding relationships among plants and animals.
What is a food chain?
The jobs of fungi or bacteria.
What are decomposers?
The organism that makes its own food and is the ONLY energy maker on Earth.
What is a producer?
An animal that hunts another animal for food.
What is a predator?
The main cause of destruction in ecosystems around the world.
What are humans?
The job of a vulture in a food web.
What is a consumer?