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?
Vulture is eating a dead animal it is a
What is a scavenger
An organism that eats plants and animals
What is an Omnivore?
Pioneer species
An organism that feeds on dead and decaying organisms
What are scavengers?
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?
Air, water, and the Sun are all ......
What is are abiotic factors?
What is an organism that only eats plants
What is a herbivore?
A full ecosystem with thriving with large and small plants and animals is an example of a what?
Animals ____________ for food, water, territory, and mates.
What is compete?
Any living thing that feeds on the waste of dead bodies of other living things.
What is a decomposer?
bacteria, fungi, worms, ants, beetles, sow bugs
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
A relationship when both benefit each other.
What is mutualism?
Primary succesion happens when?
After a volcanic erruption or glacial scraping
The living and nonliving things and the ways they interact in an environment (ex: redwood forest, swamp, Mojave Desert, humidity)
What is an ecosystem?
On the pyramid what is the organism that eats the producer called
What are primary consumers?
Living organisms in an ecosystem are called...
What is biotic?
An animal that eats plants or other animals and does not make its own food.
What is a consumer?
An area that is suitable for a particular organism to live in is called....
What is a habitat?
Secondary succession happens after what?
A natural disaster like a forest fire or flood.
An association between two different species where one organism benefits and the host is harmed....
What is Parasitism?
The role that an organism plays in the ecosystem is called...
What is a niche?
If you have the following food chain:
grass-->rabbit-->wolf-->human
What trophic level is human?
The 4th trophic level
If 100% of the energy is available to the 1st trophic level, how much energy will be passed to the next tropic level?
Daily Double: 10%
What is a similarity and a difference between and food chain and a food web?
S - Show trophic levels and feeding relationships.
D - Food webs show multiple food chains.
Describe what happened to the peppered moths or the giraffes.
Answers will vary.
Why might the forestry department do a controlled burn of a forest?
To help reduce the number of dead trees and brush that could catch on fire when not being regulated.