Ecosystem1
The two factors that make up an ecosystem.
What are biotic and abiotic?
This is what we call the place where all the living and nonliving things interact
What is an ecosystem?
Caterpillars are this level of a consumer.
What is first level?
Living things have needs that are met by their ..
What is environment?
Bees get pollen from the flowers of a plant. Pollen from the flower collects on their legs. The plant benefits from bees in this way.
What is bees help pollinate flowers so that seeds can form?
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?
Cats are this level of a consumer
What is third level?
Interacting food chains in which matter and energy flows.
What are food webs?
A true statement. A. Plants and animals depend on sunlight. B. Producers depend on consumers. C. Only plants depend on sunlight. D. Only animals depend on sunlight.
What is A?
Makes the food that animals need to live.
What is a producer?
Herbivore meaning
What is a plant eater?
Birds are this level of a consumer
What is second level?
The difference between food webs and food chains.
What is food webs show the relationship between many different food chains in a single ecosystem?
Almost all food chains begin with this
What is the sun?
A group of living things found in an ecosystem.
What is a community?
Carnivore meaning
What is meat eater?
Meaning of biotic
living
The process called in which producers make their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
They break down decaying remains.
What is a decomposer?
All members of same type of organism in an ecosystem.
What is a population?
Omnivore meaning
What is eats both plants and animals?
Name the non-living things found in an ecosystem.
What are light, soil, shade, air, and water.
The arrows in a food web represent this.
What is the transfer of energy between organisms?
This organism has the breathing adaptation needed to survive in the pond ecosystem once the water has dried up.
What is a tadpole?
Gets energy by eating food not producing it.
What is a consumer?
The prefix "bio" means this.
What is life?
Ecosystem is bigger than a biome. yes or no
No
In a forest, decomposers help other organisms survive in this way.
What is they put nutrients back into the soil that plants use to grow?
A nonliving part of the ecosystem. A. tree B. sunlight C. squirrel D. bird
What is B?
When plants use the the sun's energy, water, and carbon monoxide to make their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
By studying food webs scientists can ______________ and _____________.
What is explain how ecosystems function and predict the effects of changes to an ecosystem?
The most important thing which plants give us.
oxygen
Salmon live in the ocean near the mouths of rivers. They migrate up the rivers to mate and lay eggs. When the hatched salmon are big enough, they migrate back to the sea. Migration, or movement from one location to another, is an example of this.
What is an adaptation?
This organism is a consumer? A. tree B. grass C. flower D. squirrel
What is D?
Describes how energy in an ecosystem flows from one organism to another.
What is a food chain?
This organism is a producer? A. frog B. bird C. grass D. spider
In a pond ecosystem, these are the producers. A. big fish B. small fish C. tiny plants and algae D. tiny animals
What is C?
In the forest, there are many seeds from many types of plants and trees that creatures collect for food. Some seeds are not eaten by creatures, but are caught in the fur of these animals, carried by the wind or water.
What is dispersal?
Shows how food chains combine in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?