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something that produces food for itself
What is a producer?
Any living thing that feeds on the waste of dead bodies of other living things.
What is a decomposer?
Two basic types of ecosystems are...
What are terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems?
What is a species called that is not from the area and takes over?
What is the invasive species?
Aquatic Biomes are made up of two types
What is marine and fresh water?
something that eats something else for food
What is a consumer?
the flow of energy from a producer to one or more consumers. (ie: linked together by their feeding relationships)
What is a food chain?
the living and nonliving things and the ways they interact in an environment (ex: redwood forest, swamp, Mojave Desert)
What is an ecosystem?
What are some reasons that ecosystems have been destroyed over the years?
What are natural disasters?
(hurricanes, volcanoes, tsunamis, and floods)
Marine regions cover how much of the Earth's surface?
What is 3/4?
any animal that feeds mainly on plants; plant-eater
What is a herbivore?
What feeds on dead animals?
What is a scavenger?
A Living thing
What is an organism?
Another word form any form of water that falls from the sky.
What is Precipitation?
What are the largest ecosystem on Earth?
What is oceans?
Eats 3 pounds of Eucalyptus leaves a day.
What are Koalas?
Every food chain begins with this.
What is the sun?
Three types of organisms in an ecosystem.
What are producers, consumers, and decomposers?
This is a series of continuous interactions between water (matter) and the Sun's energy.
What is the Water Cycle?
Everything on earth can be put into groups?
living and non-living things known as:
What is biotic and abiotic?
An organism that eats meat
What is a Carnivore
a system of overlapping food chains
What is a food web?
Plants use this process to turn light into chemical energy
What is photosynthesis
When we breath in, we are taking this into our bodies.
What is the oxygen?
What provides more than 20% of the Earth's oxygen supply?
What are rainforests?
An organism that eats plants and animals
What is an Omnivore?
All energy flow flows in this.
What is a food or web pyramid?
What are the large ecosystem or collections of ecosystems with millions of animals and trees.
What is a biome?
This is the process in which liquid water changes into invisible water vapor.
What is evaporation?
Plants and trees help the Earth by absorbing some of the ________________ that hurt the environment?
What is greenhouse gases?
has a special digestive system that allows them to break down plants and grass
What are herbivores?
On the pyramid what is the organism that eats the producer called
What are primary consumers?
What are the three types of Ecosystems?
micro, messo, biomes
What are the three things a plant needs to make their own food?
What is sunlight, water and carbon dioxide?
These are the five things all organisms need to survive?
1. Get energy from food
2. grow and develop
3. get rid of wastes
4. reproduce
5. respond to the environment