Consumers
These animals eat only plants.
What are herbivores?
What is photosynthesis?
This scientific term describes the living components of an ecosystem.
What are biotic factors?
This is a more complex system that shows the interconnected food chains in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
This terms describes animals that eat both plants and animals.
What are omnivores?
In a food chain, this animal eats the herbivores.
What is a carnivore?
The part of a plant cell where photosynthesis happens.
What is a chloroplast?
These are the nonliving parts of an ecosystem.
What are abiotic factors?
Food chains and food webs model the flow of this through an ecosystem.
What is energy?
An animal that hunts and eats other animals is known as this.
What is a predator?
The first link of a food chain is usually this type of organism?
What is a producer?
These two substances are the main ingredients needed for photosynthesis to occur.
What are carbon dioxide and water?
All the organisms of the same species that live in the same area at the same time.
What is a population?
These show how energy flows in a food chain/web.
What are arrows?
These consumers get their energy by feeding on primary consumers.
These organisms are the main producers in most ecosystems.
What are plants?
This is the gas released as a byproduct of photosynthesis.
What is oxygen?
The demand for resources, such as food, water, and shelter, in short supply in a community.
What is competition?
In a food web, producers will only have arrows pointing in this direction.
What is away from the organism?
These organisms consume waste and dead matter, recycling nutrients back into ecosystems.
What are decomposers?
Along with oxygen, this is the main product of photosynthesis.
What is glucose?
What is biodiversity?
In a food web, decomposers will only have arrows pointing in this direction.
What is towards the organism?