This abiotic element is the key to plants going through photosynthesis.
What is the sun?
100
Carnivores, Herbivores and Omnivores are also called this.
What are consumers.
100
Plants are also called this, and are a necessary part of a food chain.
What are producers?
100
Plants take this harmful gas in and use it to produce oxygen.
What is carbon dioxide?
100
These types of biotic elements eat both plants and animals.
What are omnivores?
200
A pinecone is an example of this.
What is an abiotic element?
200
This is transferred from the sun, through plants and animals in an ecosystem.
What is energy?
200
Termite - Rodent - Snake - _______
What is a hawk, eagle, falcon....etc.
200
These provide nutrients in the soil for plants to grow.
What are decomposers?
200
This is where saltwater and freshwater meet in a cove or inlet. Ecosystems are very diverse here because of the variety of plants and animals that can survive in them.
What are estuaries?
300
All the organisms living in a particular area, as well as all the nonliving, physical components of the environment with which they interact.
What is an ecosystem?
300
occurs when a community has been destroyed or disturbed by natural occurrences or human activities.
What is secondary succession?
300
Deer, Kangaroos, and Elephants are are examples of these.
What are herbivores?
300
a non-living thing
What is abiotic?
300
A consumer that does not usually kill its own food. It feeds off dead or decaying plant or animal matter.
What are scavengers?
400
A zebra muscle, the asian longhorn beetle, and the lamprey eel are all examples of these.
What is an invasive species?
400
A single living thing.
What is an organism?
400
The movement of energy, which originally comes from the sun, from one organism to another.
What is energy flow?
400
This process uses sunlight, water, chlorophyll and carbon dioxide to create sugar, and oxygen in plants.
What is photosynthesis?
400
You're favourite student teacher.
Who is Mr. Kooy?
500
The five basic needs of a biotic element are food, water, energy, and what two others?
What are food and a suitable habitat?
500
An ecosystem's ability to continue or sustain itself.
What is sustainability?
500
Organisms that break down the cells of dead or waste materials and absorb their nutrients. Examples of these are bacteria and fungi.
What are decomposers?
500
The green pigment in plants that is part of the reaction in photosynthesis.
What is chlorophyll?
500
the formation of a new community where no community has existed. Examples are newly formed volcanic islands, sand dunes, and rocky shores.