Definitions
Definitions 2
Changes to an ecosystem
Niches
Prairie and Desert ecosytem
100
The part (job) an organism has in their ecosystem
What is a niche?
100
Green plants that make their own food
What are producers?
100
Does not negatively affect a prairie ecosystem because the roots of the plants are not ruined which means the plants can grow again
What is a fire?
100
Lives in the trees, eats leaves, fruit, insects, spiders, and other small animals. Found at all levels of a rain-forest ecosystem
What are squirrel monkeys?
100
Towns in a prairie ecosystem
What are burrows?
200
A group of organisms that can mate with each other and produce offspring
What is a species?
200
Organisms that help to break down and decay dead organisms and the wastes of living organisms
What are decomposers?
200
Earthquakes, fires, and volcanoes
What are sudden natural changes?
200
Active at night and eat leaves, stems, berries, and fruit
What are sloths?
200
Most important animals in a prairie ecosystem
What is a prairie dog?
300
The place where an organism lives
What is a habitat?
300
Animals that eat their food
What are consumers?
300
Change in season or weather
What are natural changes?
300
Searches for and eats new leaves high in the trees
What are howler monkeys?
300
Moves air into and throughout the soil to help plants grow
What is aeration?
400
All the members of a species that live in an area
What is a population?
400
Bacteria or fungus we find in our ecosystem
What are microbes?
400
Kills the plants which leaves primary consumers without enough food to survive
What is a volcano?
400
Eats birds, sloths, monkeys, and hunt for fish in rivers and streams
What are jaguars?
400
An ecosystem is considered a desert due to its ________________________________.
What is lack of water?
500
All the populations living together
What is a community?
500
The process by which plants use sunlight to make sugar from carbon dioxide and water
What is photosynthesis?
500
ex: Temperatures in the Arctic Tundra increase causing organisms not to survive
What is an ecosystem imbalance?
500
Found in trunks and lower branches of the trees. Eats insects.
What are poison arrow frogs?
500
Main plants in a desert ecosystem
What are cacti?
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