Energy
A food chain ALWAYS begins with__________.
What is the producers making energy from the sun.
A community of organisms and their environment, containing biotic and abiotic factors is an___.
What is an ecosystem.
When animals try to gain or win food or space by defeating or establishing superiority over species who are trying to do the same, animals are trying to ___.
What is compete?
The thing that eats the producer is called the ___________
What is primary consumer
All ecosystems include both living things, called _____ factors, and non -living things called ____.
What is it called when different species live together in a way that has effects on both of them? Sometimes it’s good for both species, sometimes it’s good for one species and does not affect the other, and sometimes it is good for one species and harmful to the other,
What is a symbolic relationship .
What is the process that plants used to make their own food called?
What is photosynthesis
An organism that eats the primary consumer is a____.
What is a secondary consumer
A food web is like a spider web, all things are connected...What happens when a part of it is pulled out or broken, such as one species dying off.
What is it falls apart. The animals that eat that species will die because they don't have enough food, and the animals that eat them will die since there is not enough food for them, and so on.
What is an organism like worms, insects, fungus or bacteria that decomposes organic material (rots away dead things) called?
What is a decomposer?
An organism that eats both primary and secondary consumers are___.
What are tertiary consumers.
What type of living thing would be found at the TOP of a food web?
What is a top or apex predator which is an omnivore/ carnivore with no natural predators.
What 2 things do all of these living things have in common? deer, rabbit, squirrel
What is they are herbivores and they are primary consumers.