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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?
What happens 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 dead organisms?
Air, water, and the Sun are all ......
What are abiotic elements of an ecosystem?
What is an organism that only eats plants
what is a herbivore?
Animals ____________ for food, water, territory, and mates.
What is compete?
An organism that breaks down the waste of dead organisms.
What is a decomposer?
bacteria, fungi, worms, ants, beetles, sow bugs
What are some examples of decomposers?
Living organisms in an ecosystem
What is biotic?
The organisms at the bottom of a energy pyramid.
What are producers?
An organism that eats plants and animals
What is an Omnivore?
the living and nonliving things and the ways they interact in an environment (ex: redwood forest, swamp, Mojave Desert)
What is an ecosystem?
An organism that feeds on dead and decaying organisms
What are scavengers?
Plants use this process to turn light into chemical energy
What is photosynthesis
An animal that eats plants or other animals and does not make its own food.
What is a consumer?
An animal that eats the remains of dead and decaying animals.
What is a scavenger?
In the a food web the mushroom and bacteria are....
What are decomposers?
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.
How energy is transferred in an environment.
A swarm of bees in an ecosystem.
What is a population?
the three types of organisms in an ecosystem.
What are producers, consumers, and decomposers?
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?
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?
There are only a few different species of plants, animals, and insects so there is low __________.
What is low diversity?
Many of the same species is a...
What is a population?
Two basic types of ecosystems are...
What are terrestrial and aquatic ecisystems?
A 'role' or 'function' of an organism's ______ includes what it eats.
What is a niche?
Anything that constrains a population's size and slows or stops it from growing.
What are limiting factors?
The two main factors that determine the type of Biome will be present in an area.
What is temperature and precipitation?
What is biodiversity?
What is a terrestrial ecosystem?
An ecosystem located in water.
What is an aquatic ecosystem?
A predator that has no predators. It is on the top of the food chain.
What is an apex predator?