Ecosystems 1
something that produces food for itself
What is a producer?
An organism that uses sunlight to create its food
What is a producer
any living thing that feeds on both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
The arrows in a food chain and food web represent....
What is the flow of energy?
What happens when you go down the food pyramid
The energy level goes down
Fungi are on the food chain and they are responsible for ________________
What is breaking down decaying materils
Animals ____________ for food, water, territory, and mates.
What is an competition?
bacteria, fungi, worms, ants, beetles
decomposers
What is an example of a tertiary consumer?
An animal at the top of the food chain, the final consumer
At the bottom of the food pyramid, what are those organisms called
What are producers
An organism that feeds on dead and decaying organisms
What are scavengers?
A Living thing
What is an organism?
What is an example of a herbivore?
An organism that eats meat
What is a Carnivore
What does a food web show
How animals rely on each other in an environment to live.
Plants use this process to turn light into chemical energy
What is photosynthesis
An animal the eats plants or other animals and does not make its own food.
What is a consumer?
On the pyramid what is the organism that eats the producer called
What are primary consumers?