Ecosystems Types
Made of water
What are aquatic ecosystems?
What is Biotic?
Plants
What are producers?
What are carnivors?
Help animals to survive in its environment
What are adaptations?
Made of land
What are terrestrial ecosystems?
All energy in an ecosystem begins with
What is the sun?
Plants make food through
What is photosynthesis?
Eats plants and animals
What is an Omnivore?
Bird building a nest, spider spinning a web, green leaves, and animal migration
What are inherited traits?
Frozen ice, low precipitation, low population of animals or plants
What is a tundra?
Flow of energy goes up or down a food pyramid or food chain.
What is up?
Shows the feeding relationship between all plants and animals in an ecosystem
What is a food web?
Any increases or decreases to the populations of _______________ and consumers effects the entire ecosystem
What are producers?
Animals eating food in their environment is a ______________ ____________.
What is acquired trait, learned behavior, or learned trait?
Temperature varies, low precipitation, fertile soil, tall grasses, very few trees and animal grazing
What is a grassland?
Eats primary consumers to obtain food/energy
What is a secondary consumer?
Animals that eat plants to obtain food/energy
What are primary consumers?
What are snake and hawk?
Destruction of animal habitats, increase in air pollutants, lots of litter are caused by
What are building of highways?
Frozen ice, low precipitation, low population of animals and plants
What is a tundra?
The role/job matter plays in an ecosystem
What is niche?
Feed on dead plants and animals
What are decomposers?
Decrease in vegetation, attraction of an over population of carnivores
What is overpopulation of grazers or primary consumers?
Living things rely on and need ___________________ to survive in an ecosystem
What are non-living things/elements?