Food Chains/Webs
This non-living object provides the energy for all producers in food chains and food webs
The sun
When one of these erupt, it can release magma from under the earth and create new land as well as block out the sky with ash and soot.
Volcanoes
This is the relationship that occurs when one organisms hunts another as a source of food.
Predation
What makes a species invasive?
it is harmful and non-native
This type of animal only eats other organisms that are already dead.
Scavengers
These unsung hero's of ecosystem break down and recycle dead plants and animals back into the soil?
Decomposers
These are the result of the earths tectonic plates pushing together or pulling apart.
Earthquakes
This is the relationship that occurs when two organisms fight over the same resource.
Competition
This insect is an example of a non-native species that is not considered invasive
Honey Bees
These animals are able to eat both plants and animals
Omnivore
These organisms take use energy from the sun to make its own food.
Producers
The long term effect of an ecosystem not having any rainfall or access to any groundwater.
Drought
This relationship occurs when two organisms both benefit in a positive way from their interactions.
Mutualism
This invasive animal that might be in your home has hunted 20 species into extinction in Australia.
Cats or Housecats
These organisms need to eat to survive the CANNOT make their own food.
Consumers
These organisms that eat producers are classified as what?
Primary Consumers
Known to be started by lightning strikes, Mr. Rummel use to fight these for a living to protect other trees.
Forest Fires
This relationship occurs when one organism takes something from its host and the host can be hurt or killed.
Parasitism
This species is often blamed for bringing invasive species to environments they do not belong in.
Humans
These animals are at the top of the food chain, they have no one hunting them.
Apex Predators
These are often smaller predators that eat primary consumers, but can be hunted by apex predators.
Secondary Consumers
This National Park is known to have the largest known volcano under it, which is overdue for an eruption.
Yellowstone National Park
These relationships have one organism that benefits and the other is completely unaffected.
Commensalism
This beetle is responsible for killing over 100 million ash trees across the United States
Emerald Ash Borer
This is the term for the amount of biological variety in an ecosystem. (More species, means a healthy ecosystem)
Biodiversity