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?
This invasive species has infested Maryland's trees and is particularly damaging to the "Tree of Heaven" found in the mid-Atlantic region
What is the spotted lanternfly?
In which biome would one find about 50% of the entire worlds biodiversity?
What is Tropical Rainforest?
The name for the total number of the same species in a habitat or ecosystem
What is a population?
An organism that eats other organisms for food.
What is a consumer?
This plant is known as "the plant that ate the south," covering whole buildings and growing throughout the year in the warm southern climate
What is the Kudzu Vine?
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 flow of energy from a producer to one or more consumers. (ie: linked together by their feeding relationships)
What is a food chain?
1 or more of the same type of organism in a certain area.
What is a species?
Air, water, and the Sun are all ......
What is are abiotic factors?
Invasive species _____________ the balance of ecosystems.
What is disrupt?
Any living thing that feeds on the waste of dead or decaying matter of other living things.
What is a decomposer?
Bacteria, fungi, worms, ants, beetles, and sow bugs are examples of these.
What are some examples of decomposers?
Food chains that is interconnected/overlaps in a particular ecosystem
What is a food web?
The top predator in an ecosystem is given this title, representing its place at the top of the food chain
What is an apex predator?
What happens when you go down the food pyramid
The energy level goes down
This is produced when owls regurgitate the bones and other undigestible parts of the organisms they eat
What is an owl pellet?
The living and nonliving things and the ways they interact in an environment
What is an ecosystem?
On the pyramid what is the organism that eats the producer called
What are primary consumers?
What would happen to the deer population in a Forrest ecosystem if they were to lose some of their predators and how would this affect the rest of the ecosystem?
What is the deer population would increase. This would cause a lower population of producers and and overpopulation of deer. This in turn could cause disease to spread amongst the deer.
Living organisms in an ecosystem are called...
What is biotic?
What type of consumers can be found in a food chain as a Primary Consumer?
What is a herbivore and omnivore.
An area that is suitable for a particular organism to live in is called....
What is a habitat?
All the populations living in one place ?
What is Community?
The name of the invasive species that arrived in waterways attached to the bottom of container ships
What is the Zebra Mussel?
This is the organ of an owl that filters out the undigestible parts of the organisms it eats so that they can later be regurgitated
What is the gizzard?
Plants use this process to make energy
Photosynthesis
This is shown by the arrows in a food chain.
What is transfer of energy?
This is the name for organisms that evolved and adapted over time in its home habitat
Native Species
This non-native species has invaded the Chesapeake and disrupted the nurseries of young fish in its tributaries with its endless appetite
Northern Snakehead
For an animal to settle in a habitat, these things must be accessible to the animal.
What is food, Water, and Shelter?