Ecosystems 1
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?
Living things obtain _____ from their environment and release _____ back into it.
What are matter and waste?
The arrows in a food chain and food web represent....
What is the flow of energy?
Fungi are on the food chain and they are responsible for ________________
What is breaking down decaying materials
a system of overlapping food chains
What is a food web?
Since humans can eat food from many different ecosystems, they are part of many different ______.
What are food chains?
Air, water, and the Sun are all ...
What is are nonliving components in an ecosystem?
Or What is abiotic?
Any living thing that feeds on the waste of dead bodies of other living things.
What is a decomposer?
bacteria, fungi, worms, ants, beetles, yeast
What are some examples of decomposers?
Food chains that interconnect/overlap in a particular ecosystem
What is a food web?
A scientist that studies ecosystems and teaches others about them.
What is an ecologist?
An organism that feeds on dead and decaying organisms
What are decomposers?
living and nonliving things are parts that make this.
What are ecosystems?
Living organisms in an ecosystem
What is biotic?
He concluded that plants do not get matter to grow from soil
Who is Jan van Helmont?
An organism that eats meat
What is a Carnivore
What does a food web show
Plants use sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water to create sugar and oxygen in this process
What is photosynthesis?
An animal that eats plants or other animals and does not make its own food.
What is a consumer?
This is the process that breaks down food into simple materials that an animal’s body CAN USE.
What is digestion?
What is an organism that only eats plants
What is an herbivore?
An organism that eats plants and animals
What is an Omnivore?
In a food web the mushroom and bacteria are....
What are decomposers?
Three types of organisms in an ecosystem.
What are producers, consumers, and decomposers?
This is what an animal‘s body does when it eats more food than it needs right away.
A gorilla, hog, raccoon, human are examples of .....
What are Omnivores?
All food chains have this in common?
What is beginning with a producer?
A vulture is eating a dead animal. A vulture is a
What is a scavenger
When a decomposer dies, its once-living material becomes waste which is then_____.
What is recycled back into the ecosystem? (Released into the air, soil, and water of an ecosystem)