Ecosystems 1
An organism that eats meat
What is a Carnivore
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?
What is it called when the broken down food is moved through the blood stream in our body?
What is circulation?
The type of animal that hunts down another for food
What is a predator?
something that eats to survive
What is a consumer?
The most common type of producers
What are plants?
Plants use this process to make their food
What is photosynthesis?
In a food web the mushroom and bacteria are types of what....
What are decomposers?
the flow of energy from a producer to one or more consumers. (linked together by their feeding relationships)
What is a food chain?
Air, water, and the Sun are all ......
Non-living things
Name one type of decomposer...
Fungi, Bacteria, mold, yeast
Any living thing breaks down the dead remains of organisms
What is a decomposer?
Where does the process of digestion begin?
In the mouth
Food chains that is interconnected/overlaps in a particular ecosystem
What is a food web?
The organisms start the energy pyramid or food chain/web
What are producers
Zebra mussels and Kudzu vines are examples of these
What are invasive species?
The living and nonliving things and the ways they interact in an environment
What is an ecosystem?
An order of a what organisms eat in an ecosystem
What are food chains?
living and nonliving things are parts that make this.
What are ecosystems?
The recovery or repair period of time after a disturbance in an ecosystem (takes a long time)
What is succession?
What do plants need to perform photosynthesis? Sunlight, Water, and ______
Carbon Dioxide
What kind of ecosystem will you have if predators and prey are balanced?
A Healthy Ecosystem
A living thing (species) that is not native and harms the ecosystem
invasive species
An event that causes a major change in an ecosystem (volcanic eruption, forest fire are examples)
What is a disturbance?
Multiple paths of energy flow or food chains
Food web
The type of organism that is hunted for food
What is a prey?
Plants give off this gas that we need to survive.
What is oxygen?
The process of how humans break down their food is called this
What is digestion?