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___________ are organisms that break down dead plants.
decomposers
___________ are organisms that eat only plants
herbivores
__________ are all of the living and nonliving things that interact within an environment
ecosystem
____________ is all of the members of ONE species that live within an area of an ecosystem
population
____________ are organisms that eat only animals (meat)
carnivores
___________ is the specific role, or job, an organism has in its habitat
niche
____________ is an organism that eats both plants and animals
omnivore
A ______________ shows the flow of energy in one direction from producer to consumer.
food chain
________ is the first link in a food chain/web.
Sunlight.
Grasslands
A ____________ is like the street address where an organism lives.
An animal whose niche is eating nectar from plants would need an adaptation of _________ to help it get its food most easily.
wings
A _______________ shows the flow of energy from one producer through several food chains.
food web
__________ is the main energy source for life on Earth.
Sunlight
Decaying organisms in a swamp help create the next generation of organisms by ____________________ (2 words) back into the soil.
putting nutrients
Animals needs that can travel through a food chain are ___________ and _____________.
minerals and nutrients
The food chain ( will / will not ) change if a population of animals die of disease.
WILL change
A decomposer is an organism that eats the ____________ __________ ___________.
remains of animals
A desert is a ____________ because it has parts that work ____________ for a purpose.
system, together
decreases
desert
grasslands
tundra
forest
tropical rainforest
Name examples of:
a decomposer _______________
a scavenger ________________
decomposer: fungi, bacteria, bugs and insects,
scavenger: turkey vulture, etc
There would be more grass for other consumers to eat, there would be less birds because some of their food source is gone.... so the birds would either have to leave that ecosystem to find enough food elsewhere OR they would die because there isn't enough for them to eat
What would happen to the SOIL if there were no decomposers?
The soil would lack minerals and nutrients, thus no plants would grow, no plants, no herbivores, no herbivores, no carnivores, no LIFE
What would happen IF there were TOO MANY grasshoppers in an ecosystem?
The grasshoppers would eat all of the grass they could find. Then grass would be gone and they would struggle to find other sources of food. They would eat all of the insects. Meanwhile, other herbivores wouldn't have much grass to fight over for food, and birds would have plenty of grasshoppers to eat as well as other carnivores/omnivores, but the lack of insects AND grass would cause an imbalance within that ecosystem until many of the grasshoppers died.