Vocabulary
What is an ecosystem?
These organisms can make their own food.
What are Plants?
A trait that helps an organism survive in its environment.
What is an adaptation?
The source of all energy in ecosystems.
What is the sun?
Wind, temperature, clouds and dirt are examples.
What are abiotic factors?
An organism that relies on other organisms for energy
What is a consumer?
These organisms are herbivores, therefore they are called ______________ consumers. (The first one to eat)
What is primary?
This animal has more vertebrae in its neck, sharp talons, and fluffy feathers so it can hunt quietly.
What is the owl?
The animal that is being hunted.
What is prey?
The bones in an owl pellet showed us that the owl is this type of consumer.
What is a carnivore?
An animal that eats dead material and recycles it back into the soil
What is a decomposer?
These organisms are typically at the top of the food chain. They are called ____________ consumers.
What is Apex predator?
This animal has sharp claws, can eat poisonous scorpions and has dark eyes to protect them from the sun.
What are Meerkats?
The location on an energy pyramid where the producers would be found.
What is at the bottom?
More than one food chain or overlapping food chains.
What is a food web?
The study of living and nonliving things and how they interact.
What is ecology?
This is a way to show how energy in a food web is distributed. Usually there is a large base and a pointed top.
What is an energy pyramid?
The name given to trees that lose their leaves during the winter.
What is decidious?
An animal that eats both plants and meat.
What is an omnivore?
An animal will only _________ in an environment that is meeting its needs. (food, shelter, water)
What is survive?
A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. It is the flow of energy in an ecosystem.
What is a food chain?
What is the percentage of energy LOST as it moves from producer to primary consumer to secondary consumer?
What is 90%?
What is to protect the seeds?
These organisms are at the top of most food chains because of their diet, hunting and pollution.
What are humans?
The saying that means that abiotic and biotic factors need one another. It also means that ecosystems rely on many things for survival
What is everything is connected?