Ecosystems 1
something that produces food for itself
What is a producer?
An organism that only eats meat
What is a carnivore?
any animal that feeds mainly on plants; plant-eater
What is a herbivore?
A Living thing
What is an organism?
What type of consumer is a human?
What are Omnivores?
bacteria, fungi, worms, mushrooms
What are TWO examples of decomposers?
any animal that feeds mostly on animals
What is a carnivore?
Animal that eats both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
the flow of energy from a producer to one or more consumers. (ie: linked together by their feeding relationships)
What is a food chain?
When an organism tries to get what it needs to survive, but other organisms need and try to get the same things
What is competition?
What is the Sun?
Three types of organisms in an ecosystem.
What are producers, consumers, and decomposers?
a system of overlapping food chains
What is a food web?
All the members of one particular species in a given area
What is population?
All the populations living in one place
What is Community?
All organisms in an ecosystem (i.e., plants and animals)
What is a living thing?
When a plant is eaten by a consumer, such as a deer, only _________ of it's energy is available to the consumer
What is 10%?
When water pools in oceans, lakes, rivers after precipiation
What is accumulation?
Each different type of organism - plant, animal, or microorganism ex. Grizzly bears
What is species?
A specie that belongs to a specific ecosystem__________.
What is a native species?
Provide many of the things that the organisms need to survive, such as as sunlight, air and water
What is a non-living thing?
Plants use this process to turn light into chemical energy
What is photosynthesis
When water evaporates from leaves
What is transpiration?
Network of interactions between living and non-living things
What is an ecosystem?
Sunlight, food, air, water, shelter
What are THREE survival needs?
All energy flows in this.
What is a food chain or food web?
The model you make to show energy loss in a food chain
What is an ecological pyramid?
What is released into the atmosphere when there is deforestation?