Ecosystems
What is Photosynthesis?
The process in which a plant makes its own food.
What is the water cycle?
The Movement of water between the oceans, atmosphere, land, and living things is known as the water cycle.
What is a Habitat?
A place where an organism lives within an ecosystem.
What is energy?
The ability to do work and enables organisms to use matter in life process.
What is Celluar Resperation?
The process of breaking down food to produce ATP.
Where do producers get their energy?
From there surroundings.
What is the carbon cycle?
When carbon moves through organisms and the physical environment.
What is an ecosystem?
A community of living organisms and their nonliving environment.
Where does all energy come from?
All energy comes either directly or indirectly from the sun.
What do energy and matter have in common?
They are both conserved.
Where do consumers get there energy?
Consumers get their energy by eating other organisms.
What is the Nitrogen Cycle?
The movement of nitrogen between the environment and living things.
What is a Niche?
The position or role a species has in an ecosystem.
How does energy flow through an ecosystem?
It starts with the sun then gets transferred into plants which are eaten by herbivores, which are eaten by either carnivores or omnivores, then when they die, they are eaten by decomposers.
What is ATP?
Adenosine Triphosphate
What is the niche of a decomposer?
Decomposes break down leftover organisms.
A cycle that describes the interactions between energy sources within the Earth's environment.
What is a Biome?
A region of Earth where the climate determines the types of plants and animals that live there.
Can energy be destroyed or created?
It is stated in the law of conversation of energy that energy cannot be created or destroyed.
How do puffins get energy?
(HINT: It lives in/by the ocean)
It gets its energy by eating Herring and Squid.
What would happen if all of the consumers disappeared from an ecosystem?
Decomposers would die because there would be no leftover food for them and producers would over grow.
What do all of the cycles have in common?
They all recycle essential elements though ecosystems.
What is a Eutrophication?
The process in which organic matter and nutrients slowly build up in a body of water.
How does energy affect plants and animals in an ecosystem?
Energy affects plants and animals by giving them the ability to move around and be active. Without it, plants wouldn't be able to have the energy to make their own food or move around.
Name a mammal that lays eggs.
1. Platypus
2. Echidna