Basic Ecosystems
A non-living part of an ecosystem.
What is an abiotic factor?
They're at the bottom of the food chain.
What are producers?
An ecosystem which has plenty of native plants and a balanced food chain.
What is a healthy ecosystem>
The three types of interactions in an ecosystem.
What are mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism?
This process warms the Earth by using the Sun's radiation.
What is the greenhouse effect?
This includes all living things in an ecosystem.
What are biotic factors?
This is how energy flows through ecosystems.
What are food chains?
An overpopulation of one species can lead to this.
What is an unhealthy ecosystem?
Vines grow up a tree trunk, taking the tree's nutrients. This is ______.
What is parasitism?
Water vapor, carbon dioxide, and methane are among this type of gases.
What are greenhouse gases?
They break apart dead organisms into nutrients.
What are decomposers?
A group of connected food chains.
Invasive plants have overpowered native ones. This ecosystem is ____.
What is unhealthy?
A relationship where one organism benefits and the other is not helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
The global temperature has risen this much since 1800.
What is 1 degree Celsius?
Heterotrophs get food by doing this.
What is eating other organisms?
A hawk eats a rabbit who ate some lettuce. The hawk is a ______.
What is a secondary consumer?
Re-balancing an ecosystem's food chain can _____.
What is restore its health?
A bee eats nectar from flowers, pollinating them and getting his own food. This is ______.
What is mutualism?
This process in the global ecosystem is why it rains.
What is the water cycle?
An ecosystem.
What is a community of organisms interacting with their environment?
This occurs when two animals need the same thing, but there's not enough for the two of them.
What is competition for resources?
The ____ energy is always needed for ecosystem health.
What is the Sun?
A frog makes its home in a tree. This is an example of ______.
What is commensalism?
Continuing to release our current amount of greenhouse gases will ____ global warming.