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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?
A gorilla, hog, raccoon, human are examples of .....
What are Omnivores?
The arrows in a food chain and food web represent....
What is the flow of energy?
Many of the same species is a called a . . .
What is a population?
What happens when you go down the food pyramid
The energy level goes down
Fungi are on the food chain and they are responsible for ________________
What is breaking down decaying materils
Describes the reason for a controlled burn.
To clear out small plants to prevent wildfire
One living thing is ...
What is an organism.
Animals ____________ for food, water, territory, and mates.
What is an competition?
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?
Long term relationship between 2 different otganisms.
What is a symbiosis?
At the bottom of the food pyramid, what are those organisms called
What are producers
An organism that eats plants and animals
What is an Omnivore?
Doubling a region’s human population would most likely change the environment by...
Building new homes, roads, etc.
the living and nonliving things and the ways they interact in an environment (ex: redwood forest, swamp, Mojave Desert)
What is an ecosystem?
An organism that feeds on dead and decaying organisms
What are scavengers?
Biotic and abiotic factors are parts of this.
What are ecosystems?
After large numbers of people moved to an area, several species of animals and plants became extinct. Which event most likely led to the extinction of so many species in a short amount of time?
What is habitat destruction?
Vulture is eating a dead animal it is a
What is a scavenger or decomposer
In the a food web the mushroom and bacteria are....
What are decomposers?
T or F community is made up of different populations that depend on one another.
What is true?
Why are producers important in an ecosystem?
They provide food for consumers.
What does a food web show
How animals rely on each other in an environment to live.
Plants use this process to turn light energy into chemical energy
What is photosynthesis
An animal that eats plants or other animals and does not make its own food.
What is a consumer?
On the pyramid what is the organism that eats the producer called?
What are primary consumers?
All the populations living in one place ?
What is Community?
T or F A community is made up of one kind of population living in one place.
What is false?
_______________ describes both animals' relationships as their behaviors benefit each other.
What is mutualism?
A relationship when one organism lives on or in another for nourishment.
What is parasitism?
All energy flow flows in this.
What is a food or energy pyramid?
Three types of organisms in an ecosystem.
What are producers, consumers, and decomposers?
Two basic types of ecosystems are...
What are terrestrial and aquatic ecisystems?
A 'role' or 'function' of an organisms ______ includes what it eats.
What is a niche?
People are part of food chains. What is the role of people in a food chain?
What are consumers?'
There are only a few different species of plants, animals, and insects so there is low __________.
What is low diversity?
T or F? One way to help reduce pollution in Jean’s town is to add more recycling cans.
What is True?
A group of living things is a ____________.
What is a population?
all living things in the environment
What are biotic factors?
What is the best way to get rid of an invasive plant?
Pull it out with its roots and don't replant it anywhere.
Wildfires can spread quickly when there are many things that can burn, One way to limit wild fires is to...
Firefighters do 'controlled burns' to get rid of the small plants since they make extra "fuel" that can burn.
T or F? I would check their mass to compare how different materials decomposed after one week.
What is true?
What is the role of people in a food c
What are consumers?
all living things in the environment are known as ___________ ___________.
Biotic Factors
All organisms of the same species in an ecosystem.
What makes up one of the populations in an ecosystem?
How does the diversity in the rainforests help determine the health of ecosystems?
When diversity is high, there are more resources available
The things that are necessary, and can limit a population of organisms in an area
What are the limiting factors?
What role do abiotic factors such as temperature and water play in an ecosystem?
They determine which plants and animals can live there
Name an item that will break down quickly.
What is a banana peel?