Ecosystems 1
The place where an organism lives
What is a habitat?
An organism that uses sunlight to create its food, thus beginning the food chain
What is a producer?
Any animal that feeds mainly on plants; plant-eater
What is a herbivore?
An organism that eats both plants and animals is called an
What is an omnivore?
An organism that hunts, kills, and eats other organisms
What is a predator?
Original source of energy for all living things
What is sun?
Organisms that depend on producers for food
What is a consumer?
A consumer that eats only other consumers
What is a carnivore?
The animals that a predator hunts are called
What is prey?
True or False: Plants need sunlight, carbon dioxide and water for photosynthesis
What is true?
These keep the ecosystem clean by breaking down dead things and wastes
What is a decomposer?
Learning about ecosystems is part of being a good ________ in God's world.
What is a steward?
Each living member of an ecosystem
What is an individual?
True or false: An energy pyramid shows how energy moves through one food chain in an ecosystem.
What is true?
When two or more organisms are trying to use the same resources. This helps balance the ecosystem.
What is a competition?
The plant or animal that a parasite lives on is called its
What is host?
Includes all the living organisms and their environment in a certain section of the earth
What is an ecosystem?
Food chains that are interconnected/overlap in a particular ecosystem
What is a food web?
An organisms specific job or function in an ecosystem
What is a niche?
A special partnership in which two species interact with each other over a long period of time
What is symbiosis?
Special characteristics or skills that help living things survive in their environment
What are adaptations?
All the organisms of the same species that live in an ecosystem
What is a population?
Movement of an entire group of animals from one ecosystem to another ecosystem
What is migration?
What is environment?
Food, water, protection from consumers and shelter are four basic ________ of all living things.
What is a need?
An organism that feeds on dead and decaying organisms
What are scavengers?
Any organism that lives on or in another organism and gets food from that organism
What is a parasite
All the different species that live in a particular ecosystem
What is Community?
Living organisms in an ecosystem are called...
What is biotic?
Bacteria, fungi, worms, ants, beetles, sow bugs
What are some examples of decomposers?
The transfer of energy and nutrients through a community
What is a food chain?
Parasitism, mutualism and commensalism are types of what?
What is symbiosis?
To reproduce, to raise their young, to search for food or water, or to avoid hot or cold weather are reasons animals do this
What is migrate?
The study of the relationships and interactions of living things with their environment
What is Ecology?
God-given basic knowledge and skills that an animal needs for survival
What are instincts?