Living Things
What is a living organism that can produce its own food?
What is a producer?
What is the starting point of a food chain?
What is a producer?
What is the role of herbivores in an ecosystem?
What is to eat plants?
What are decomposers?
What are organisms that break down dead or decaying matter?
Where does the energy in a food chain come from originally?
What is the sun?
What do we call animals that eat other animals?
What is a predator or consumer?
In a food chain, what are organisms that eat producers called?
What are primary consumers?
Which organisms are considered scavengers?
What are animals that eat dead organisms?
Name one example of a decomposer.
What is a fungus or a bacteria?
How do plants obtain energy?
What is through photosynthesis?
What term describes all the different populations that live in a certain area?
What is a community?
What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?
What is a food web is a system of interconnected food chains?
What is the relationship between predators and prey in an ecosystem?
What is predators help control the population of prey species?
What happens when the food source of decomposers is gone?
What is they can die off or decrease in population?
How is energy transferred from one level to another in a food chain?
What is when one organism eats another?
How do plants contribute to the oxygen in our atmosphere?
What is through photosynthesis?
What is the role of decomposers in a food chain?
What is to break down dead material?
What role do fungi play in ecosystems?
What are decomposers that break down organic matter?
How do decomposers contribute to the food chain?
What is by providing nutrients for producers?
What happens to energy as it moves up the food chain?
What is it decreases by 1/10?
What do plants need to survive?
What are water, sunlight, carbon dioxide?
Name a top predator in a food chain.
What is an example like an eagle or a shark?
Why is biodiversity important for ecosystem stability?
What is it provides a variety of resources?
What would happen to an ecosystem without decomposers?
What is it would lead to an accumulation of dead material and nutrient depletion?
Explain why there are usually fewer top predators in an ecosystem compared to producers.
What is because energy is lost at each level, limiting the number of organisms that can be supported?