Processes
Classification
ALL about Ecosystems
Decomposition
Ecosystem Extras
100
Photosynthesis
What is the process by which plants make their own food?
100
Decomposer
What is the term that would best apply to fungi or bacteria?
100
An increase in the amount of fruit, nuts and plants
Which of the following would be a likely result of the loss of the squirrels and mice on the previous slide?
100
To recycle dead material into reusable materials.
What is the point of decomposition?
100
Mass can neither be created nor destroyed.
What is the Law of Conservation of Mass?
200
plants take in carbon dioxide and water and produce sugar and oxygen
What is the process of photosynthesis?
200
Consumer
What is an organism that cannot produce/make its own food?
200
water, shelter, oxygen, and food
What are the basic needs of all living things?
200
Increasing the temperature of the object putting the object in more sunlight putting the object in more water
What would quicken the rate of decomposition?
200
A visual that shows what eats what in an ecosystem
What is a food web?
300
the sun
What is the original source of all energy?
300
The process of breaking down a once-living organism into small reusable parts.
What is decomposition?
300
The organism doing the eating.
In a food web, the arrow is always pointing to...?
300
Mushroom
What is an example of fungi?
300
Carbon and water
What are all living things primarily made of?
400
Plants/Producers which get their energy from the sun
Where does energy in the food web come from?
400
An organism that eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
400
An ecosystem...
What is an interaction between living things in an environment?
400
water/rainfall, temperature, area, size of object, oxygen
What are factors that could increase the rate of decomposition of an apple that fell from a tree?
400
An organism that only eats meat.
What is a carnivore?
500
Ultra Review: Cellular Respiration
What is the process that turns stored food into energy for animals?
500
another name for Carnivore
What is secondary consumer?
500
Answers could include: over-hunting, overpopulation, alien species
What are some factors that could negatively impact an ecosystem?
500
Air, water, minerals, and organic matter.
What is soil made of?
500
That species may die and that will negatively impact the ecosystem.
What happens if people hunt one species too much?
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