Food Systems
All energy starts from here.
What is the sun?
Organisms that eat only plants to gain energy.
What are herbivores?
A large area in the world with specific animals, plants and climate patterns.
What is a biome?
What is an ecosystem?
Plants need to take in these things to start photosynthesis.
What is sunlight, carbon dioxide and water?
The sun -> Grass-> Cricket -> Chicken -> You is an example of this.
What is a food chain?
Foxes, wolves, lions and snakes are these because they get their energy from other consumers.
What are secondary (and tertiary) consumers?
A large open area covered mostly by grass, includes areas like the Savannah, prairies and fields.
What is a grassland?
Nonliving factors in an ecosystem - includes fire, temperature, rocks, and the sun.
What are abiotic factors?
Plants produce and release these back into the environment once photosynthesis has been completed.
What is oxygen and glucose?
These organisms get their energy by eating other organisms.
What is a consumer?
Deer, cows, rabbits and sheep are examples of these because they get their energy from producers.
What are primary consumers?
What is a desert?
Restoring wetlands, conserving forests, removing waste from oceans are examples of this.
What is a protection for the environment?
This is the largest biome on Earth, and include all the oceans.
What is a marine biome?
These organisms create their own food using energy from the sun.
What is a producer?
Organisms that eat only other animals to gain energy.
What are carnivores?
A region of evergreen, coniferous forests below the arctic and tundra regions that has long, cold winters and short, mild summers
What is a taiga?
Building dams, dumping waste, chopping down forests, rerouting rives and building roads are examples of this.
What is a disruption?
Die, grow, reproduce, take in energy and take in water.
What are the 5 things ALL living organisms do?
A series of interconnected food chains, showing the movement of energy from organism to organism.
What is a food web?
Organisms that eat both plants and animals to gain energy.
What are omnivores?
A cold, dry biome with no trees, very flat and a layer of permanently frozen soil
What is the tundra?
Living (or once living) factors of an ecosystem - includes trees (dead and alive), parrots, grass, deer, and bacteria
What are biotic factors?
True or False:
Plants take in energy from the sun and carbon dioxide through their leaves, and nutrients from water through their roots (with or without soil),
TRUE