Ecosystem 1
What is the primary source of energy for most ecosystems?
The sun
What do we call organisms that eat other organisms to get energy?
Consumers
What are the organisms that can make their own food called?
Producers
Can you name a few different types of ecosystems?
Forest, desert, ocean, grassland
Name a few examples of decomposers
Bacteria, fungi, earthworms
What is a food chain?
A simple sequence showing how energy is passed from one organism to another
What are five things in a ecosystem?
animals or a consumers plants or producers and fungi and micro-organisms decomposers
most common ecosystem
marine ecosystem or ocean ecosystem
what is the most common animal in the desert Ecosystem
A camel
what is the most common animal in the tundra
caribou or reindeer
How does a food web differ from a food chain
A food web shows more complex interactions between different organisms in an ecosystem
What are the two main types of factors in an ecosystem?
Biotic - living things, and abiotic - non-living things.
how does water pollution affect ecosystem
introducing harmful substances that can directly kill aquatic life and poison the wild life.
what is the apex predatorof the wetlands
a alligator
why are ecosystem important?
ecosystem provide life sustaining interractions for many plants and animals.
What is the biggest threat to ecosystems?
deforestation
what do all ecosystem need
energy from an external source
what is the grasslands mostly made up of
large herbivores
what is the most rarest Ecosystem
freshwater ecosystems
in an Ecosystem of a temperate rainforest what is the most common animal
red tree squirrel
pollution how can it impact an ecosystem?
Pollutants like heavy metals can directly poison organisms when ingested or absorbed through the skin, impacting their health and survival.
what is the most dangerous animal in ecosystem
the mosquito
in an Ecosystem of a temperate rainforest what is the largest animal
Roosevelt elk or elk
what is the most famous ecosystem in the world?
Amazon rainforest
what is the most common animal in a forest ecosystems
deer