What is an ecosystem?
A place that provides all the things an organism needs to live
What is a habitat?
Nonliving factors in an ecosystem
What are abiotic factors?
________________ make their own food.
What are Plants or producers?
Food chains always start with a __________
What is a Producer?
The relationship between two organisms when at least one organisms benefits
What is a symbiotic relationship (what is symbiosis)?
Tell us three examples of SPECIES.
Open answer (dogs, cats, foxes, mice, eagles, etc.)
A consumer that hunts and eats other animals
What is a predator?
According to how they obtain food, living things in ecosystems are p__________ and c___________
What are producers / consumers?
Food chains show living things and how their ______ moves from one organism to another.
What is energy?
A relationship in which both organisms benefit each other
What is mutualism?
All the living things of the same species that live in an ecosystem is a _______________
Population
An animal that is hunted by others for food
What is prey?
_______________ are consumers. They feed on other living things.
Continue the food chain:
Producer --------->_______________ ---------->Secondary consumer
What is primary or first level consumer?
Symbiotic relationship when one organism is unaffected while the other is benefited.
What is commensalism?
All the different populations of living things that live together in the same ecosystem is a _____________.
community.
The process plants use to make food
What is photosynthesis?
Herbivores are _____________ consumers. They only feed on plants.
What are primary or first level consumers?
To show more than one food chain in an ecosystem we use food _________
What is a web?
A symbiotic relationship when one organism is harmed and the other is benefited.
What is parasitism?
All the living organisms in an ecosystem
What are biotic factors?
Organisms in an environment that eat dead plants and/or animals for food
What are scavengers?
________________ are secondary consumers.
What are Carnivores or Omnivores?
Tell an example of food chain:
Open answer (grass --> rabbit --> fox)
Why can't a penguin and an eagle have a symbiotic relationship?
What is they live in different ecosystems?