Nutrition and Energy
These break down organic matter
What are decomposers?
What is grass?
Much of the water on land runs off into these 2 bodies of water.
What are lakes and oceans?
This is the process of gradual, natural change and species replacement in an ecosystem over time.
What is succession?
Organisms that hunt and eat other organisms
What are predators?
The process used by autotrophs to make food energy from the sun is called this.
What is photosynthesis?
Sun-> Grass -> Grasshopper -> Gecko -> Owl, this is the 3rd level consumer.
What is owl?
This is what happens when water in the atmosphere cools.
What is condensation?
This succession takes place on land where there are no living organisms.
What is primary?
Any relationship were 2 species live closely with each other.
What is symbiosis?
Organisms that rely on other organisms for their energy are called this.
What are heterotrophs?
Sun-> Grass -> Grasshopper -> Gecko -> Owl, this is the herbivore
What is the grasshopper?
This is what happens when droplets become large enough and fall back to earth.
What is precipitation?
The first species to live in the area, once cooled off, are called this.
What are pioneer species?
Both species benefit from the relationship
What is mutulism?
Organisms that make their own food are called this
What are producers?
Sun-> Grass -> Grasshopper -> Gecko -> Owl, this is the main energy source of the food chain.
What is the sun?
Most water molecules enter the atmosphere after doing this.
What is evaporating?
This succession is a pattern of change that takes place after an existing community is destroyed, such as a wildfire.
What is secondary?
All strategies and adaptations a species uses for survival.
What is niche?
Chemosynthesis is a way an organisms can produce energy without this
What is sunlight?
Sun-> Grass -> Grasshopper -> Gecko -> Owl, second level consumer.
What is the gecko?
This happens when water goes from the leaves to the atmosphere from leaves.
What is transpire?
After time passes, little or no change
occurs – when this is the case, this community is called this.
What is climax community?
Non-living parts of an environment
What are abiotic factors?