Ecosystems 1
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An organism that eats meat
What is a Carnivore
100
An organism that uses sunlight to create its food
What is a producer
100
any animal that feeds mainly on plants; plant-eater
What is a herbivore?
100
any living thing that feeds on both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
100
Vulture is eating a dead animal it is a
What is a detritivore?
200
An organism that eats something else for food
What is a consumer?
200
An organism that feeds on dead and decaying organisms
What are decomposers?
200
Plants use this process to turn light into chemical energy
What is photosynthesis?
200
Air, water, and the Sun are all ......
What is are abiotic factors?
200
the flow of energy from a producer to a series of one or more consumers. (ie: linked together by their feeding relationships)
What is a food chain?
300
Many of the same species is a...
What is a population?
300
The directions of the arrows in food chain show...
What is energy flow?
300
bacteria, fungi, worms, ants, beetles, sow bugs are all examples of what type of consumer?
What are decomposers?
300
A system of interconnected and overlapping food chains in a particular ecosystem.
What is a food web?
300
The organisms at the bottom of the food pyramid (on the first trophic level) are
What are producers?
400
The living and nonliving things and the ways they interact in an environment (ex: redwood forest, swamp, Mojave Desert)
What is an ecosystem?
400
What type of consumer is the cricket?
What are primary consumers?
400
Multiple species of organisms living together in an area are called...
What are communities?
400
Living organisms in an ecosystem are what type of factor...
What is a biotic factor?
400
Plants add this abiotic factor to the atmosphere/environment which makes animal life possible.
What is oxygen?
500
An organism in a food chain that eats mostly herbivores.
What is secondary consumer?
500
Example of a producer in a marine ecosystem
What is algae, plankton?
500
Another name for a consumer
What is heterotroph?
500
What is the highest trophic level represented in the food chain below (not counting the decomposer):
What is a Quaternary consumer
500
In the food web below, the removal of which organism would cause the most damage? Why?
Producers (Grass), They convert solar energy into chemical energy for the other organisms in the ecosystem