Ecosystems and Matter Cycles
this is an environment made mostly of animals
What is an ecosystem?
can only survive in an ecosystem where they have everything they need to survive
What is an organism?
type of ecosystem which is underwater and contains many types of coral, fish and other aquatic animals
What is ocean?
animals that eat the dead bodies of other animals
What are scavengers?
process by which plants make their own food
What is photosynthesis?
parts of an ecosystems that are nonliving
What are abiotic?
mud, rocks, air, water, sunlight are examples of this type component in an ecosystem
What are abiotic?
type of ecosystem that is full of land based plants and has lots of rainfall. it is also never too hot or too cold. mosses, monkeys are birds are part of this
What is the rain forest?
organisms that are too small to be seen without a microscope but they are decomposers
What are bacteria?
plants that use the suns energy to make food
biotic and non-biotic factors in an ecosystem that participate with or have an effect on something else
What is interact?
the total number of one kind of animal living in the same ecosystem
What is a population?
What is the desert?
plantlike decomposers such as mushrooms and mold
What are fungi?
an animal that hunts and eats other animals as prey
What are predators?
plants take this in through the leaves and soil through the roots
What is carbon?
grass is an example of this type of component of an ecosystem
What is biotic?
this type of ecosystem consists primarily of water
organisms that use sunlight to make their own food
show where an animals food comes from and where that organism becomes food as well
What is a food web?
a microbe is an example
What is a decomposer?
formed by the combination of different animal populations living in the same ecosystem
What is a community?
factors that affect ecosystems and their communities
What is the climate?
Organisms that eat plants or other animals
decomposers make this from decaying matter
What are nutrients?