What makes up an ecosystem
What is the two things that make up an ecosystem?
Biotic and abiotic.
This is what we call the place where all the living and nonliving things interact
What is an ecosystem?
True or False
Caterpillars are consumers.
Yes of plants
Living things have needs that are met by their ..
What is environment?
The main source of energy for functioning ecosystems.
What is the sun?
A group of living things found in an ecosystem is called this
What is a community?
Are cats carnivores or omnivores?
Carnivores
An animal that eats producers are called?
Herbivore
Makes the food that animals need to live.
What is a producer?
what is at the beginning of every food chain?
a producer, plant, grass
Birds are consumers or producers?
Consumers
What is the process called in which producers make their own food?
photosynthesis
A group of living things found in an ecosystem.
What is a community?
In this food chain, what are the carnivores?
grass->grasshopper->frog->snake-> hawk
frog, snake, hawk
Meaning of biotic
living
Are Plants alive?
Yes, they are even though they are different from animals and humans in many ways.
All members of same type of organism in an ecosystem.
What is a population?
Omnivore meaning
What an animal that eats both plants and animals?
Name the non-living things found in an ecosystem.
What are light, soil, shade, air, and water.
What is an animal called that eats another animal for its energy?
Carnivore
Gets energy by eating food not producing it.
What is a consumer?
write a food chain ending with a decomposer.
grass->mouse->bacteria
In a pond ecosystem, which are the producers? A. big fish B. small fish C. tiny plants and algae D. tiny animals
C
In a forest, how do decomposers help other organisms survive?
They put nutrients back into the soil that plants use to grow.
When plants use the the sun's energy, water, and carbon dioxide to make their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
Do plants eat, drink, and breathe?
No, Plants absorb water, respire, and absorb sunlight
Which is a nonliving part of the ecosystem? A. tree B. sunlight C. squirrel D. bird
B
Elephants are terrestrial. Terrestrial means this
What is land-living?
Describes how energy in an ecosystem flows from one organism to another.
What is a food chain?
Which organism is a producer? A. frog B. bird C. grass D. spider
Which statement is true? A. Plants and animals depend on sunlight. B. Producers depend on consumers. C. Only plants depend on sunlight. D. Only animals depend on sunlight.
A
The Sun is also the primary source of vitamin D for animals, which is essential for their growth. Vitamin D provides calcium, which helps form strong bones and teeth. Animals get vitamin D directly by exposure to the Sun or indirectly by eating plants.
When creating a food web, students include arrows. What do the arrows in a food web represent?
Arrows show the transfer of energy between organisms
Shows how food chains combine in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
make a food chain using these organisms
bee, flower garden, daddy longlegs, robin, web-spinning spider
flower garden->bee->web-spinning spider->daddy
longlegs->robin
Name five things that tell us something is alive?
Movement, growth, reproduction, waste, and respiration
In an ecosystem, how are food webs and food chains different?
Food webs show the relationship between many different food chains in a single ecosystem.
Name two things that break down decaying remains.
bacteria, mold, fungi, snails, pillbug, slug,
grass->grasshopper->frog->snake->hawk
If the snake disappears from the ecosystem what will happen?
Frogs will overpopulate and eat all the grasshoppers and the hawk will die it has no food.
What is an animal called that eats the leftovers of dead animal carcuses?
Scavenger
What is an autotroph?
An autotroph is an organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals. Because autotrophs produce their own food, they are sometimes called producers.