Nurse Logs
This is a former fallen tree that is often found in forests and helps plants and animals live and grow
Nurse Log
A large region with similar climate, plants, and animals and ecosystems
Biome
An organism that makes its own food
Producer
Specific area where plants, animals and decomposers interact with each other and their environment.
Ecosystem
anything that has weight and takes up space can be called what
Matter
These animals often eat the dead and decaying wood to break it down
Termites
This Biome receives little to no rainfall and has animals such as snakes, lizards and bats
Desert
Humans, Lions and birds are all examples of what
Consumers
A detailed connected system showing how fall the food energy transfers between various organisms in an ecosystem
Food Web
The main source of energy for most ecosystems
the Sun
These land on nurse logs and often start sprouting Fungi
Spores
An example of a cold biome with long dark winters and short cold summers
Tundra
Fungi, bacteria and termites are all common classifications of organisms as they can all be referred to by this term
decomposers
Small openings in plant leaves that allow air to enter
Stomata
The process in which plants convert sunlight into energy
Photosynthesis
How does a nurse log help plants and animals live and grow in the forest
It create a biodiverse mini ecosystem in, under and around the log
This Biome is only found in northern canada and russia and is home to many cone bearing evergreen trees
Taiga
What is the main roil of a decomposer in an ecosystem
To break down dead and decaying matter
The waste material produced by earthworms that enriches soil
Castings
a closed system does not allow matter to enter or leave a system but this may enter depending on the system structure
Energy
The process by which a nurse log breaks down
decomposition/ decomposes
This biome has the most diversity in the world when it comes to the plants and animals that live here.
Tropical rain forest
If mushrooms and other decomposers were to be removed from a nurse log how would that impact the forest ecosystem
It would cause the nurse logs and other dead decaying matter to pile up and fill in the forest
An open system refers to how these 2 things can enter and exit the system often effecting what is inside and around the system
Matter and Energy
This theory states that matter can never be created or destroyed but is simply recycled to other places or organisms and often used for energy
Conservation of Matter