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 animal that feeds mainly on plants; plant-eater
What is a herbivore?
any living thing that feeds on both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
A gorilla, hog, raccoon, human are examples of .....
What are Omnivores?
The arrows in a food chain and food web represent....
What is the flow of energy?
Many of the same species is a...
What is a population?
What happens to the energy when you go up 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
What is an organism that only eats plants
what is a herbivore?
Biospheres are made up of
biomes
Animals ____________ for food, water, territory, and mates.
What is an competition?
Any living thing that feeds on the waste of dead bodies of other living things.
What is a decomposer?
bacteria, fungi, worms, ants, beetles, sow bugs
What are some examples of decomposers?
Long term relationship between 2 different otganisms.
What is a symbiosis?
At the bottom of the food pyramid, what are those organisms called
What are producers
An organism that eats plants and animals
What is an Omnivore?
Rocks
Air
Water
Temperature
Hours of Daylight
What are abiotic factors
An organism that feeds on dead and decaying organisms
What are scavengers?
If an insect species lives in only a certain type of plant and that plant is removed, what part of the insects’ life is being affected?
What is its niche?
Vulture is eating a dead animal it is a
What is a scavenger
In the a food web the mushroom and bacteria are....
What are decomposers?
The layers of gases that surrounds Earth
Atmosphere
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
the study of how organisms interact with each other as well as their environment
Ecology
On the pyramid what is the organism that eats the producer called
What are primary consumers?
All the populations living in one place ?
What is Community?
Almost all life exists between about 500 meters below the ocean's surface to about 6 kilometers above sea level.
Biosphere
A relationship when both benefit each other.
What is mutualism?
A relationship when one organism lives on or in another for nourishment.
What is parasitism?
All energy flow flows in this.
What is a food or web pyramid?
Three types of organisms in an ecosystem.
What are producers, consumers, and decomposers?
Two basic types of ecosystems are...
What are terrestrial and aquatic ecisystems?
A 'role' or 'function' of an organisms ______ includes what it eats.
What is a niche?
System can grow and remain viable without interference
HInt: also the specific name of this biology unit
Sustainable Ecosystems