Producers & Consumers
An animal that eats a plant.
What is a herbivore?
Occur naturally in a given area.
What are native species?
Recyclable materials.
What are glass, paper, metal, and some packaging?
A disadvantage of a sustainable community.
Possible answer: High cost, less convenience
A system that environments and their organisms form through their interaction.
What is an ecosystem?
A scorpion is this type of animal; predator or prey?
What is a predator?
For example Purple Loosestrife; Interferes with the natural ecosystem.
What is an invasive species?
Causing air pollution; This can be used for heating, transportation, and industry.
What are fossil fuels?
A social cost of air pollution.
What is an increase in respiratory illness?
True/False: A schoolyard is an ecosystem.
What is true?
This is what a food chain always begins with.
What is a producer?
The introduction of foreign species into native ecosystems.
What is bioinvasion?
One way landfill sites damage our ecosystems.
Possible answers: Leaking toxic substances and chemicals into our soil and water, poisoning abiotic elements.
A financial benefit of reducing air pollution.
What is a reduction in healthcare costs?
An animal with no natural predator.
What is an apex consumer?
These consumers do not usually kill their food source.
What is a scavenger?
When an ecosystem can maintain a balance of needs and resources over time.
What is sustainability?
Fewer producers are available to anchor food chains after this occurs.
What is destruction of habitat?
This can reduce the need for fossil fuels.
What is technology?
True/false: An ecosystem can support an endless amount of living organisms.
What is false?
These consumers feed off waste.
What are detritivores?
This is a two-word term for elements that control/limit the health of biotic elements; Food, predators, climate, for example.
What is limiting factors?
The approximate amount of waste that goes to landfills each year.
What is 25 million tonnes?
A benefit of re-using materials.
Any type of a close and long-term biological interaction between two organisms of different species.
What is symbiosis?