Ecos 1
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?
The movement of carbon atoms through different reservoirs on Earth, including the atmosphere, oceans, land, and living organisms, through processes like photosynthesis, respiration, decomposition, and combustion
What is the Carbon Cycle?
The arrows in a food chain and food web represent....
What is the flow of energy?
Animals get the nitrogen they need by
What is eating other organisms (plants and animals)?
something that eats something else for food
What is a consumer?
What is trophic level?
Fungi are in the food chain and they are responsible for ________________
What is breaking down decaying materials?
A biogeochemical process that transforms nitrogen into various forms as it moves through the atmosphere, soil, water, and living organisms, essential for life. Key processes include nitrogen fixation, nitrification, assimilation, ammonification, and denitrification
What is the Nitrogen Cycle?
The trophic level with the most energy
What are producers?
all of the individuals of a species that live together in one place at one time
What is a population?
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?
The process by which cells break down glucose to produce energy
What is Cellular Respiration?
The process that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
What is photosynthesis?
Animals obtain the carbon they need by
What is eating other organisms?
an organism's job or function within an ecosystem
What is a niche?
grasshopper, cricket, cows are all examples of.....
What is a primary consumer?
The reactants of photosynthesis
What are Carbon Dioxide, Water and Light (Sunlight)
Living organisms in an ecosystem
What is biotic?
the type of heterotroph that searches for food already killed
What is a scavenger?
In the a food web the mushroom and bacteria are....
What are decomposers?
the long-term interaction between two species
What is symbiosis?
An organism that eats meat
What is a Carnivore
The kind of relationship where one organism benefits and the other is unaffected
the symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits, one is harmed
What is parasitism?
An animal that eats plants or other animals and does not make its own food.
What is a consumer?
In a food chain what is the organism that eats the producer called
What are primary consumers?
All the populations living in the same place at the same time
What is Community?
Organism needed to complete the food chain/food web to put back nutrients in the soil
What is decomposer?
A relationship when both benefit each other.
What is mutualism?
A relationship when one organism lives on or in another for nourishment.
What is parasitism?
The products of photosynthesis
What are glucose (C6H12O6) and oxygen (O2)?
The process by which food is made by bacteria or other living things using chemicals as the energy source, typically in the absence of sunlight
What is Chemosynthesis?
The first four levels of organization in an ecosystem?
What are organism, population, community and ecosystem.
A 'role' or 'function' of an organism in an ecosystem, such as what it eats.
What is a niche?
Energy in food is called
What is chemical energy?