Animals that Eat
An animal that hunts, kills and eats another animal is called this?
PREDATOR.
A food chain always begins with a ____________
producer
What are the parts of an ecosystem?
Biotic: living & Abiotic: non-living
Plants that feed on dead animals and other plants and put nutrients back into the soil.
DECOMPOSER?
What is the process of how plants make their own food using sunlight, water, and air (carbon dioxide) to create sugary food for energy and release oxygen for us to breathe called?
Photosynthesis
This is the word for the animal that gets hunted, killed and eaten...
PREY
Where a producer gets its energy.
The sun
All of the populations that live in one area of an ecosystem together are called what?
Community
What is an example of a human activity that impacts ecosystem.
Hunting, logging, pollution, overfishing, building, agriculture, etc.
Which of the following things in a pond ecosystem is abiotic?
A. Duck B. Water C. Trout D. Butterfly
B. Water
An animal that eats or consumes other animals is called...
Carnivore
Make a food chain with the following: hawk, grass, snake, mouse
grass, mouse, snake, hawk
All members of the same species is called a _______________.
Population
What are the three levels of every food chain?
Producer, decomposer, and consumer?
What is one way in which plants depend on animals?
Animals give off the oxygen plants need.
A deer is an animal that just eats plants (producers) is called: A) Spicavore B) Migrate C) Herbivore D) Birdavore
C, Herbivore
Many food chains joined together to show all energy transfers within an ecosystem.
Food web.
Name 3 abiotic (non-living) components of a forest ecosystem.
Soil, water, air, rocks.
An animal that eats both plants and meat? A bear is considered this?
Omnivore
What do the arrows in a food web show?
Direction of energy/matter movement
In a forest, how do decomposers help other organisms survive?
They put nutrients back into the soil that plants use to grow