The parts of an ecosystem?
The organisms interact?
How do some Indiana organisms interact
How do organisms get and use energy.
How do people Impact ecosystems?
100
A place that provides all the things an organism needs to live.
What is a habitat?
100
An animal that hunts and eats another animal.
What is a predator?
100
A plant that loses its leaves for part of the year.
What is a deciduous plant?
100
Earth's primary energy source.
What is the sun?
100
Any substance that damages the environment.
What is pollution?
200
All the living and nonliving things in an area and their interactions.
What is a ecosystem?
200
Any animal that is hunted by others for food.
What is a prey?
200
A plant that keeps green leaves on its branches all year.
What is an evergreen plant?
200
During this proccess, plants use energy from sunlight, carbon dioxide from the air, and water absobed by plant roots to make sugar.
What is photosynthesis?
200
An attempt to preserve or protect an environment from harmful changes.
What is conservation?
300
A group of organisms of one species that live in an area at the same time.
What is a population?
300
They make their own food for energy.
What is a producer?
300
The two categories of fungi.
What are molds and yeasts?
300
This is given off by the plant during photosynthesis.
What is Oxygen?
300
A plant or animal that doesn't grow naturally in an ecosystem.
What is a nonnative species?
400
Different populations in an area make up this.
What is a community?
400
Organisms that get their energy by breaking down wastes and dead animals.
What is a decomposer?
400
This is very important to the health of ecosystem. If not for this dead organisms and wastes would pile up and interfere with habitats.
What is decay?
400
The process by which cells break down sugar to release energy.
What is cellular respiration?
400
Changing the environment by bringing in new plants or animals into a ecosystem can upset this in ecosystems.
What is balance?
500
The role that an organism has in an ecosystem.
What is a niche?
500
Organisms that cannot make their own food. They get their energy from producers.
What is a consumer?
500
Decomposers that are so small you can not see them without a microscope.
What is bacteria?
500
Most organisms, including animals, could not live without these two things that plants make.
What are oxgen and sugar?
500
When limits are put on how many animals a person can hunt or fish so that the environment is not harmed, it is called.
What is regulation?
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