Ecosystem 1
A living thing is this kind of factor
Biotic
Animals which consume mainly plants are __________
Herbivores
These are organisms that break down dead animals and plants
Decomposers
This is the process of turning water into water vapor
Evaporation
What living things use carbon dioxide to remain alive?
Plants (for photosynthesis)
A non-living thing is this kind of factor.
Abiotic
Animals that consume both animals and plants are known as
Omnivores
This is a thing that is a convenient way to show how energy moves among living things in an ecosystem (straight arrows)
Food Chain
This is the process that changes water vapor back into liquid water
Condensation
Carbon dioxide
Any place on Earth where living things interact with other living and non-living things is called an _______________
Ecosystem
An organism that can make its own food is known as a
Producer
An animal that eats other animals
Predator
This is the word we use when water falls from the sky (rain, snow, ice pellets, etc.)
Precipitation
What is the word for burning fuel?
Combustion
An organism that has to seek out and eat, or consume, other living things for food is a ____________
The process that plants use to make their own food is called __________
Photosynthesis
An animal that is eaten by other animals
Prey
How is water evaporated?
By the sun
Driving a snow machine or ATV releases carbon into the atmosphere, true or false?
True
Animals that consume mainly animal food are ____________
Carnivores
These organisms are consumers that don't kill for their own food, they feed off the remains of living things that are already killed
Scavengers
When you link food chains in an ecosystem, you get a ________
Food web
What does water vapor condense into?
Clouds
Decomposers add carbon to the environment/atmosphere, true or false?
True