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 (type of consumer)
What is a herbivore?
any living thing that feeds on both plants and animals (type of consumer)
What is an omnivore?
an organism that hunts, kills, and eats other organisms
What is a predator
Plants source of energy
What is sun
Precipitation->ground water -> evaporation -> ______________
Condensation
something that eats something else for food
What is a consumer?
The environment with the most biodiversity
What is the rainforest?
Plants use this process to turn light into chemical energy
What is photosynthesis?
In a food web the mushroom and bacteria are....
What are decomposers?
one organism of one species
What is an individual?
In the water cycle, cloud formation is also known as....
condensation
Animals ____________ for food, water, territory, and mates.
What is an competition?
Any living thing (bacteria included) that feeds on the waste of dead bodies of other living things.
What is a decomposer?
bacteria, fungi, worms, ants, beetles, sow bugs are examples these on a food web or chain.
What are some examples of decomposers?
Food chains that is interconnected/overlaps in a particular ecosystem
What is a food web?
At the bottom of the food pyramid, what are those organisms called
What are producers
Many of the same species is a...
What is a population?
In which process do plants use to cycle carbon dioxide?
Photosynthesis
The living and nonliving things and the ways they interact in an environment (ex: redwood forest, swamp, Mojave Desert)
What is an ecosystem?
On the pyramid what is the organism that eats the producer called (specific level)
What are primary consumers?
Living organisms in an ecosystem are called ________ Factor...
What is biotic?
An animal that eats plants or other animals and does not make its own food.
What is a consumer?
All the populations living in one place ?
What is Community?
How does water vapor enter the atmosphere? (pick two)
Evaporation and Transpiration
the variety of species in an ecosystem
Biodiversity
The role that an organism plays in the ecosystem is called...
What is a niche?
The study of how organisms interact with each other, how they are affected by their environment and how they, in turn, affect the environment that they live in.
What is Ecology ?
restriction of the number of organisms that can live in an area
What is a Carrying Capacity?
the gradual progression of different communities onto virgin land or onto habitat that is recovering from natural or manmade disturbances.
What is Succession?
Air, water, and the Sun are all what type of factor......
What is are abiotic factors?
What are the two processes responsible for cycling oxygen and carbon dioxide between animal and plants?
Photosynthesis and Respiration