Ecosystems
What would be an example of a producer??
Types of plants
What is the importance of a carbon cycle?
Carbon plays a very important role in the lives of every living organism.
What is a food chain?
The series of processes by which food is grown or produced, sold, and eventually consumed.
What is symbiosis?
Interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association, typically to the advantage of both.
What is an example of a living organism?
Trees, Mushrooms, Grass, Worms, Insects, and animals, etc.
What would happen to the cows if the moose kept eating the grass?
The moose overpopulate and the cows not get the food they need, cow populations would decrease.
What are ways that humans can affect the carbon cycle?
Burning fossil fuels, cement manufacturing, and greenhouse gases.
What happens if we take out the primary consumer in a food chain?
Without the primary consumers there would be no source of energy for carnivores or secondary consumers so no secondary consumers would exist in that ecosystem.
What is an example of Mutual-ism?
Like coral and a lobster, etc.
What is an example of a nonliving organisms?
Water, Trash, Sunlight/ Sun, Rocks, Soil, etc.
What would happen if you take the primary consumer out of an ecosystem?
The secondary consumer would not get the food they need to survive.
How does carbon get to the ocean?
Carbon dioxide dissolves in water, the new takes up yet more carbon to match the atmosphere.
What happens if we take out the Apex predator in a food chain?
The result of the removal of the top predators in an ecosystem is a population explosion in the prey species.
What is an example of Commensalism?
An example of Commensalism could be fleas, drinking the dogs blood and the dog doesn't know it.
What are similarities between nonliving and living organisms?
They both are useful and not garbage.
How do humans affect an ecosystem?
They might think that one of the consumers or the producers are harmful to they might kill one another.
How is carbon used?
It is used for fuel in the form of coal, methane gas, and crude oil.
How do humans impact food chains?
They affect food webs through energy production and agriculture, pollution, habitat destruction, over fishing and hunting.
What is an example of Parasitism?
An example of parasitism are the helminthes (worms) in the intestines of the host, lice (Pediculus humanus capitis) in human head, Plasmodium species transmitted by anopheline mosquito and causing malaria in humans.
How can humans affect living and non living things?
Pollution of trash in water and littering can effect organisms.
Name an example of an ecosystem using producers, consumers, and decomposers?
A producer might be like plants or trees, a primary consumer might be rabbits, or anything that eats plants or cows an apex predator might be like wolves, Foxes or
How can carbon affect our everyday life?
Carbon compounds regulate the Earth's temperature, make up the food that sustains us, and provide energy that fuels our global economy. Most of Earth's carbon is stored in rocks and sediments.
What is in a food chain?
A food chain is a simple, graphic way of showing a food relationship between organisms.
How can humans affect the symbiosis?
Humans live in closely interdependent relationships with numerous other living organisms. Humans raise bees, who pollinate fruit and vegetable blossoms and provide honey.
How are trees useful?
They can make paper and is very useful for fires and etc.