Ecosystem vocabulary
The living parts of an ecosystem.
What are biotic factors?
An organism that is hunted for food.
What is a prey?
Organisms that make their own food.
Who are producers?
The energy for ecosystems comes from this source.
What is the sun?
Organisms that feed on dead plants or animals and return nutrients to the soil.
Who are decomposers?
The nonliving parts of an ecosystem.
What are abiotic factors?
The interaction in which one organism hunts and kill another organism for food.
What is predation?
Living things need food to mainly get this.
What is energy?
Organisms that cannot make their own food are called _______________.
What are consumers?
What do all these organisms have in common? Oak tree, grass, maple tree.
What are producers? They are producers.
Made up of nonliving and living parts interacting in an area.
What is an ecosystem?
Lions in the African Savanna eat antelopes and gazelles. Cheetahs eat gazelles and antelopes too. How would the lion and the cheetah interact?
What is compete?
Animals that eat only other animals.
What is a carnivore?
Consumers that feed on producers.
What are primary consumers?
Why are earthworms important in ecosystems?
What is they are decomposers that recycle nutrients?
Factors that control the growth of a population of organisms.
What are limiting factors?
Termites (wood ants) have organisms (protozoa) in their gut that help them digest the wood they eat. The protozoa gets food. Name this interaction.
What is mutualism?
A carnivore that hunts other animals.
What is a predator?
Frogs feed on primary consumers such as grasshoppers and therefore are called ______________ ________________.
What are secondary consumers?
If a fox eats a rabbit, in which direction would the arrow points?
What is from the rabbit to the fox?
Consists of different populations such as a population of pigeons, a population of squirrels, a population of oak tree and a population of sparrows.
What is a community?
Give an example of mutualism that you learned about other than the oxpecker and zebra, and the clownfish and the sea anemone.
jelly fish - algae
oak tree - squirrel
Identify the reactants and the products of photosynthesis respectively.
What are carbon dioxide, water, glucose and oxygen?
Give an example of a producer, a primary consumer and a secondary consumer.
What is an oak tree, a squirrel, and a hawk?
Define the term consumer.
An organism that feeds on (eats) other organisms?