The relationship of living and non-living things
What is an ecosystem?
What is a producer?
When a species no longer exists.
What is extinction?
The natural predator for the rabbits disappeared causing the rabbit population to decrease.
What is false?
The rabbit population would increase.
Fire
What is a natural disaster?
The Sun provides energy for this
What is a producer?
The type of organism that does NOT produce its own food.
What is a consumer?
The Sun wasn't able to provide light to the plants
Why did the plants die?
Decomposers are important because they break down dead organisms into organic materials.
What is true?
Pollution
What is a human made disaster?
A consumer that eats other consumers.
What is a predator?
Type of organism that breaks down dead plants and animals.
What is a decomposer?
It will cause problems within the ecosystem. The plants and animals will die.
What happens when people pollute?
Energy is supplied to a food web when animals eat producers.
What is false?
Energy is provided when plants use the Sun's energy through the process of photosynthesis.
Hurricane
What is a natural disaster?
Animals that are hunted and eaten by other animals (consumers)
What is prey?
bacteria, mushrooms, and earthworms
What are decomposers?
This caused an over abundance of rabbits in the ecosystem.
What happens when a predator disappears?
Rabbits and dogs are producers.
Rabbits and dogs are consumers.
Animals are relocated because of clear-cutting
What is a human made disaster?
A fire or flood
What is a natural distaster?
What are producers?
When fruit starts to get slimy and grows mold on it.
What is decaying?
Birds use energy to make their own food.
What is false?
Birds do not use energy to make their own food. Birds use energy to GATHER food.
Forest fires
What is a human made disaster?