Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers
Living things that make their own food are known as
What is a producer?
The organism that is introduced into a new ecosystem and outcompetes or harms the organisms that were there first.
What is an invasive species?
Name three limiting factors that restricted the size of our deer's population.
What is food, water, and shelter. (predators or hunters would also work)
The three kinds of consumers include...
What is herbivores, omnivores, and carnivores?
{Earn 50 bonus points if can name the trophic level for each!}
A diagram that shows the interconnected feeding relationships between many organisms in an ecosystem.
What is food web?
**DAILY DOUBLE** A resource that is scarce that it limits the size of a population is called a ______________________
What is a limiting factor?
An organism that hunts and eats another organisms is called a _______________________ and an organism that is killed and eaten by another organism is called a ____________________.
What is a predator and a prey.
Nature's recyclers who break down dead plants and animals
What are decomposers?
**DAILY DOUBLE** Consumers known as omnivores eat _________________
What is both plants and animals?
A diagram that shows an ecosystem's loss of energy through each trophic level.
What is an energy pyramid?
The largest population that an environment can support over time is known as the ____________________.
What is carrying capacity?
What happens if an organism is removed from an ecosystem?
Other populations of organisms will be impacted (increase or decrease based on availability of resources)
Organisms that have to eat another organisms to gain energy
What are consumers?
{Double your points if you wrote heterotroph!!}
Organisms that enrich the soil with nutrients that strenthen plants and the animals that eat them are called _____________.
What is decomposers?
Form a food chain using the following organisms: snake, grass, eagle, mouse
What is grass--> mouse-->snake-->eagle?
An animal with no predators that hunt it.
What is an apex predator?
When two or more individuals or populations try to use the same resource, it is called _________________________.
What is competition?
What is producer or plant?
Organisms that use sunlight directly to make food are called _________________. They do this by using a process called ______________________.
What is producers and photosynthesis?
**DAILY DOUBLE**Why are producers located at the bottom of an energy pyramid?
Producers get their energy from the sunlight and are the base of the rest of the ecosystem.
The rule of 10% states that this is lost from one trophic level to the next.
What is heat (or energy)?
The type of symbiotic relationship when an organism lives on or inside another organism and eats the host's blood or tissue?
What is parasitism?