Terms
All living and nonliving things and their interactions is called
What is an ecosystem?
forests, grasslands, and deserts are examples of
What are terrestrial ecosystems?
rivers, swamps, marshes, streams, ponds, and oceans are this type of ecosystem
What is an aquatic ecosystem?
something that makes its own food
What is a producer?
an animal that eats only meat
Land ecosystems
What is terrestrial?
Has layers and more plants and animals than any other ecosystem
What is a rainforest?
a saltwater ecosystem where whales and sharks live
What is ocean ecosystem?
something that eats something else for food (cannot make its own food)
What is a consumer?
An animal who eats both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
Water ecosystems
What is aquatic?
plants such as cactuses live in this terrestrial ecosystem
What is a hot desert?
Rivers, streams, and ponds are this type of aquatic ecosystem.
What is freshwater?
any living thing that feeds on the waste of dead things, breaking them down into simpler forms and adding nutrients to the soil (ex: bacteria, worms, fungi)
What is a decomposer?
any animal that eats mainly on plants
a system of overlapping food chains
What is a food web?
treeless and grassy ecosystem
What is a savanna and prairie?
This is the largest aquatic ecosystem in the world
What is the ocean?
the flow of energy from a producer to one or more consumers. (ie: linked together by their feeding relationships)
What is a food chain?
Animal that gets hunted
What is prey?
the living and nonliving things in an area
What is an ecosystem?
Two types of forest (hint: not forest and rainforest)
What are deciduous and coniferous?
ducks, turtles, and insects live in this type of aquatic ecosystem
What is freshwater ecosystem?
The arrows in a food chain and food web represent
What is the flow of energy?
Animal that hunts other animals
What is a predator?