Vocabulary
the the study of how living things interact with each other and their environment
What is ecology?
When plants use the the sun's energy, water, and carbon dioxide to make their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
Gets energy by eating food not producing it.
What is a consumer?
Caterpillars
Herbivore or Carnivore?
What is a herbivore?
All air of the planet
What is atmosphere?
This is what we call the place where all the living and nonliving things interact
What is an ecosystem?
Makes the food that animals need to live.
What is a producer?
Herbivore meaning
What is a plant eater?
Water.
Biotic or Abiotic
What is abiotic?
all water on earth
What is the hydrosphere?
A group of all living things found in an ecosystem.
What is a community?
Almost all food chains begin with this
What is the sun?
Carnivore meaning
What is meat eater?
Living and Nonliving things.
Ecosystem or Community
What is an ecosystem?
All living things on the planet
What is the biosphere?
All members of same type of organism in an ecosystem.
What is a population?
This is the gas needed by producers to make food
What is carbon dioxide?
Omnivore meaning
What is eats both plants and animals?
Flows.
Energy or Nutrients
What is energy?
All land on earth
What is the lithosphere?
Living things.
What is biotic?
Producers get ______% of the energy from the sun.
What is 100?
Consumers use this to obtain energy
What is cellular respiration?
Volcano.
Atmosphere or Lithosphere?
What is the lithosphere?
Describes how energy in an ecosystem flows from one organism to another.
What is a food chain?
Nonliving things.
What is abiotic?
Daily Double: Consumers get _____% of the energy of everything they eat.
What is 10%?
They break down decaying remains.
What is a detritivore?
Daily Double: Most efficient.
Photosynthesis or Cellular Respiration
What is photosynthesis?
Shows how food chains combine in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?