Living & Non-Living
This is the term for the living components of an ecosystem.
What is Biotic?
Organisms, like plants, that can produce their own food using sunlight.
What is a producer?
Describes the conditions of the atmosphere in an area for a short period of time and is constantly changing.
What is weather?
The process of moving soil and rock from one place to another, often by wind or water.
What is erosion?
The term for a single living thing.
What is an organism?
A group of organisms of the same species living in an ecosystem.
What is a population?
An animal that gets energy exclusively from meat.
What is a carnivore?
Name a gas that traps heat in the Earth's atmosphere and is a result of burning fossil fuels.
What is carbon dioxide?
An animal that hunts another animal for food.
What is a predator?
Organisms that eat dead plants or animals but generally do not kill them themselves.
What is a scavenger?
The term for the solid mineral material, or the solid ground, that covers the Earth
What is the lithosphere?
Where most of Earth's energy comes from.
What is the sun?
Gases, such as carbon dioxide, that result from the burning of fossil fuels as well as other fuels, such as wood.
What are greenhouse gases?
The specific role of an organism within its ecosystem, including what it eats and what eats it.
What is a niche?
Describes the average weather that an area has over a long period of time.
What is climate?
This is the combination of the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere where life can exist.
What is the biosphere?
A network that shows a series of interconnected food chains.
What is a food web?
Fuels, like coal and oil, that originated from plants and organisms that died and decomposed millions of years ago.
What is a fossil fuel?
The type of succession that occurs when a major event reduces an ecosystem, but pre-existing soil remains, allowing life to regrow.
What is secondary succession?
Name three of the five needs of all living things.
What are Sunlight, Air, Water, Food, and Ideal Temperature Range?
The difference between a community and a biome.
What is: A community is different populations interacting in an ecosystem, while a biome is a large area with a characteristic climate, soil, plants, and animals?
These organisms, like fungi and bacteria, break down dead or decaying material and absorb energy from it.
What are decomposers?
The two primary actions humans take that put more carbon into the atmosphere, causing a potential imbalance in the Carbon Cycle.
What are burning fossil fuels and burning rainforests?
Name one negative consequence of humans redirecting the flow of water in an ecosystem (e.g., building a dam).
What is animals losing their homes, rising waters drowning organisms, erosion sending soil into the water body, or dams damaging organisms?
The idea that the Indigenous traditional way of life is based on using and managing a resource so that it will last forever for future generations.
What is perpetuity (or sustainability)?