Vocabulary
Parts Of An Ecosystem
Matter Flow
Energy Flow
Think About It!
100
An organism that gets its energy from eating meat.
What is a carnivore
100
The specific role or job an organism has in its habitat.
What is a niche
100
The main source of energy in any ecosystem.
What is the sun
100
This diagram shows how food chains in an ecosystem are connected.
What is a food web
100
A reason why a grasshopper population may decrease in the ecosystem below.
What is The grass dies and they have no food.? The snakes overpopulate and eat them all.? The kookaburras overpopulate and eat them all.?
200
An organism that gets its energy from eating plants.
What is a herbivore?
200
All the members of one species that live within an area of an ecosystem.
What is a population
200
How many directions a food chain can flow.
What is 1 direction?
200
This is the kind of temperature in which decay occurs the fastest.
What is hot/warm
200
Explain what would happen if the snake population disappeared in this ecosystem.
What is The eagle would eat more kookaburras and the kookaburras would decrease in population.?? The grasshoppers and mice could overpopulate.
300
An organism that breaks down dead plants and animals into nutrients for the soil.
What is a decomposer
300
The different populations that interact with each other in the same area.
What is a community
300
These organisms produce their own food from energy they received from the sun.
What are producers
300
Two factors that speed up the decaying process.
What is warm temperature/ moisture/ oxygen
300
Name one food chain that is a part of this food web.?
What is --Sun-orchid-mosquito-frog-raccoon-alligator? --Sun-bladderwort-turtle-alligator? --Sun-orchid-mosquito-carp-heron-alligator
400
An organism that gets energy by eating both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore
400
A specific body part that helps an organism survive in its habitat.
What is an adaptation
400
These organisms must consume energy from other organisms.
What are consumers
400
A gas that is released into the atmosphere during the decay process.
What is carbon dioxide
400
Explain the difference between a producer and a consumer in this ecosystem.
What is Producers produce their own food with energy gained from the sun.?Consumers get energy by consuming other organisms.
500
An environment that has living and nonliving things that interact.
What is an ecosystem
500
A group of different parts that work together to perform a function.
What is a system
500
These are 2 items that decomposers help put back into the soil.
What are nutrients and minerals
500
The result of an ecosystem that has no decomposers.
What is too many dead organisms
500
Put the following steps in order to tell how a decomposer affects an ecosystem: ??_____ Finally, animals eat the plants. ?_____ Next, minerals and nutrients are put back ? into the soil. ?_____ First, decomposers digest the waste and ? the remains of dead animals. ?_____ Then living plants use the nutrients
What is First, decomposers digest the waste and the remains of dead animals.?? Next, minerals and nutrients are put back into the soil.?? Then living plants use the nutrients. ?? Finally, animals eat the plants.?
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