Ecosystem
What is a ecosystem?
a community of interacting organisms and their environment
What is a food web?
A food web is a group of food chains within an ecosystem
What are the three categories of matter?
Solids, gas, and liquids
What do plants need to grow?
Plants need water, nutrients from the soil, and carbon dioxide from the air.
What are the four main spheres?
lithosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and atmosphere
What are the main three things in an ecosystem?
producers, consumers and decomposers
What is the main energy source for food webs?
The energy source is the sun.
True or false: Can matter be created and destroyed
False
What process do plants use to grow?
Photosynthesis
What is the most important sphere?
The biosphere.
What are the four main ecosystems?
forest ecosystem, grassland ecosystem, tundra ecosystem, and desert ecosystem
How many food webs are there?
Two types
What is the smallest matter?
True or false: Can plants feel pain?
False
What sphere caused a tsunami or a hurricane?
the hydrosphere
Why is an ecosystem important? (Name three things or more)
clean our water, purify our air, maintain our soil, regulate the climate, recycle nutrients and provide us with food
What does every food web have?
What are the properties of matter?
Mass, weight, and volume
Plants convert sunlight into what into what type of energy to make food?
Chemical energy
What sphere caused a volcano?
the lithosphere/geosphere
what are the ecosystems? (Name five)
forest, desert, rain forest, grassland, tundra, savanna and mountain ecosystem.
What are the roles in food webs?
producers, consumers and decomposers.
What is the state of matter we haven't learned about? (It's okay if you get it wrong)
Plasma
What do plants give us?
Air, water, food, and many more things that helps us live.
What sphere are we?
Biosphere