Vocab
Plants who make their own food are called
What are producers?
Animals that ONLY eat plants
What are herbivores?
What do the arrows in the food chain represent?
What is energy?
Food webs are made from _____ _____ that overlap
What are food chains?
What is carrying capacity?
The maximum number of organisms that can be sustained in an environment
All organisms need food to give them
What is energy?
What are omnivores?
Which animal would be the MOST affected afterward if a forest fire burned all the grass away?
sun -> grass -> grasshopper -> bird
What is grasshopper?
Which direction do the arrows flow in a food web?
They follow energy - from prey to predator
The variety of life in an ecosystem
Organisms that need to eat to live are called
What are consumers?
Animals that ONLY eat other animals
What are carnivores?
A food chain always begins with
What is a producer?
What happens when you remove a producer from its ecosystem?
A chain reaction occurs - all predators populations fluctuate and skew the populations of others
What is the vocab term for an organism that has an extremely large impact on its environment?
What is a keystone species?
The prefix for "auto" means ...
what is self?
An organism that hunts other animals
What is a predator?
Which would be an example of a primary consumer? A fox, plant, or a caterpillar?
What is a caterpillar?
Bacteria, fungi, and mushrooms are..
What are decomposers?
What is the name for an organism that extends its native environment and causes harm to its new environment, economy, and human health?
What is a invasive species?
An organism that recycles dead organisms into chemical nutrients used in soil, air, and water is...
What is a decomposer?
An organism that a predator hunts
What is a prey?
A consumer can be either three of these things
What is a herbivore, carnivore, or a omnivore?
A snake has 2 prey: The mouse and the bird. The snake also has 3 predators: The fox, the hawk, and the badger. How many arrows would point AWAY from the snake in a food web?
3
What happens to biodiversity when you remove an ecosystem's keystone species?
The ecosystem would cease to exist or have to rapidly change