vocabulary
an animal that eats other organisms for energy
What is consumer?
Plants produce these 2 things during photosynthesis.
What are oxygen and glucose (sugar)?
what is a source of energy for most plants?
What is the sun?
both a food chain and food web begin with a what?
What is a producer?
What is erosion, continents moving, ect?
an animal that is hunted and eaten
What is prey
An organism that makes it's own food.
What is a producer?
a plant that is brought from another place is called
What is a nonnative plant?
the relationship between an owl and a mouse is that of ____________ and ____________
What is predator and prey?
name an event that would cause a fast change to an environment
What is flood, earthquake, volcano,?
all the conditions surrounding an organism
What is environment?
A characteristic that helps an organism survive .
What is an adaptation?
what is the reverse of photosynthesis?
What is cellular respiration?
nonnative animals can grow quickly in an ecosystem because
there are no predators that hunt them
name the role of the bacteria in the following food chain
plant->insect->bird->snake->bacteria
What is decomposer?
series of step that moves energy from one living thing to another
What is food chain?
A green food-producing molecule that helps plants make their own food.
What is chlorophyll?
during cellular respiration, organisms give off
What is carbon dioxide?
what would an adaptation be for an animal that lives on land but hunts in water?
webbed feet,
smooth skin,
ect
What is a regulation?
rules to prevent over hunting or fishing of animals
an attempt to preserve or protect the environment
What is conservation?
A network of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
What is the shortest food chain made up of?
What is producer and decomposer?
What would happen to a food chain if large amounts of pesticides are introduced?
The insects would be killed, the animals that eat the insects would be killed or move away, and then the animals that eat that animal would starve, ect
explain how producers, consumers, and decomposers help an ecosystem support the populations within it
What is producers turn sunlight into energy, which is given to consumers when they eat the plant. The consumers eat plants and other animals helping to keep the populations in balance. The decomposers break down the dead animals and waste and return nutrients to the soil to be used again by plants