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?
Too many of a specific species
Overpopulation
We give plants __________ to make their own food
Carbon dioxide
something that eats to survive
What is a consumer?
An organism that feeds on dead and decaying organisms Ex. vulture
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?
The arrows in a food chain represent
Nonliving components
Abiotic
Any living thing breaks down the dead remains of organisms
What is a decomposer?
Food chain
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
ocean
The living and nonliving things and the ways they interact in an environment
ecosystem
What is the organism that eats only the producer called
Primary Consumer
living and nonliving things are parts that make this.
What are ecosystems?
Living organisms in an ecosystem are called...
What is biotic?
Plants give us food and _________
Oxygen
An area that is suitable for a particular organism to live in is called....
What is a habitat?
A living thing that is not normally found in the ecosystem
invasive species
One single organism in an ecosystem is called what?
an individual
Many of the same species is a
Population
Organism that eats only meat
carnivore
Plants give off this gas that we need to survive.
What is oxygen?
All the populations living in one place
Community