Ecosystems
Vocabulary
Producer/Consumer
Relationships
Other
100
The ecosystem covers most of the planet.
What is the ocean?
100
All the living things in an ecosystem are called this.
What is biotic?
100
Producers release this gas when they are producing food.
What is oxygen?
100
The interaction where one organism kills and eats another organism. For example: an owl and a mouse.
What is predator/prey?
100
Something like soil that is non-living in an environment.
What is abiotic?
200
The ecosystem that has the least competition for food and resources.
What is the rainforest?
200
All organisms of the same type at the same place at the same time.
What is a population?
200
Organisms that eat both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
200
This shows the amount of energy available from one level to the next.
What is energy pyramid?
200
An item being able to break down in nature.
What is biodegradeable?
300
An area with drought and wind resistant plants. Warm summers and cool winters. Bison and antelope often are found here.
What is a grassland?
300
The job of a consumer in an ecosystem.
What is a niche?
300
Consumers that eat only plants.
What is a herbivore?
300
This is a contest between living organisms for resources.
What is competiton?
300
Many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem.
What is food web?
400
The ecosystems that we live in and has trees that lose their leaves.
What is a deciduous forest?
400
A place where an organism lives and where it meets it's needs.
What is a habitat?
400
Consumers that feed on the bodies of dead organisms and put nutrients back into the soil.
What is a decomposer?
400
This animal eats dead plants and animals
What is a scavenger?
400
A chemical that kills insects.
What is insecticide?
500
Where fresh water and salt water mix near the coastline.
What is an estuary?
500
Two or more groups of different organisms that live and interact with each other in the same area.
What is a community?
500
There has to be more energy in the beginning of a food chain or web.
Why are there more producers than consumers?
500
When an organism feeds off another organism.
What is a parasite?
500
How much energy is passed from one level to the next?
What is 10%?
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