Ecosystems 1
Ecosystems 2
Ecosystems 3
Ecosystems 4
Ecosystems 5
Organisms
Hodge Podge
100
something that produces food for itself
What is a producer?
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
The arrows in a food chain and food web represent....
What is the flow of energy?
100
Many of the same species is a...
What is a population?
200
something that eats something else for food
What is a consumer?
200
What happens when you go down the food pyramid
The energy level goes down
200
Fungi are on the food chain and they are responsible for ________________
What is breaking down decaying materils
200
a system of overlapping food chains
What is a food web?
200
the flow of energy from a producer to one or more consumers. (ie: linked together by their feeding relationships)
What is a food chain?
200
What is an organism that only eats plants
what is a herbivore?
200
Air, water, and the Sun are all ......
What is are nonliving components in a forest ecosystem?
300
Animals ____________ for food, water, territory, and mates.
What is an competition?
300
Any living thing that feeds on the waste of dead bodies of other living things.
What is a decomposer?
300
bacteria, fungi, worms, ants, beetles, sow bugs
What are some examples of decomposers?
300
Food chains that is interconnected/overlaps in a particular ecosystem
What is a food web?
300
At the bottom of the food pyramid, what are those organisms called
What are producers
300
An organism that eats plants and animals
What is an Omnivore?
300
Can overhunting of animals within an ecosystem have an impact on the ecosystem? Why?
Yes, overhunting of the animals could cause the other consumers to find a new place to live or they could die without their food source.
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
An organism that feeds on dead and decaying organisms
What are scavengers?
400
living and nonliving things are parts that make this.
What are ecosystems?
400
Living organisms in an ecosystem
What is biotic?
400
In the a food web the mushroom and bacteria are....
What are decomposers?
400
Environmental changes happen all the time. Some of these changes are easy to spot. For example, the figure below shows a sign that you might see while riding along a road in many places.
What can you conclude about environmental changes after seeing this sign?
Humans can destroy habitats.
500
An organism that eats meat
What is a Carnivore
500
What does a food web show
Many food chains interwoven.
500
Plants use this process to turn light into chemical energy
What is photosynthesis
500
An animal that eats plants or other animals and does not make its own food.
What is a consumer?
500
On the pyramid what is the organism that eats the producer called
What are primary consumers?
500
All the populations living in one place ?
What is Community?
500
The following picture shows a prickly pear, which has spiny, flat joints and thick, rounded stems that store water.
To which of the following types of environments is a prickly pear best suited?
What is the desert?