This type of organism only eats meat
carnivore or tertiary consumer
What is the green pigment inside a plant that carries out photosynthesis?
chlorophyll
What is the main source of energy for all producers?
Sunlight
What are examples of decomposers?
mushrooms, bacteria
Which ecosystem is known to have colder, icy climates?
Tundra
Tundra
This organism eats both plants and animals
omnivore/secondary consumers
What is needed to photosynthesis to occur?
sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water
What is the name of the process that allows producers to capture energy from the sun?
Photosynthesis
What is the job of decomposers?
to recycle dead organic matter
This ecosystem receives heavy amounts of rainfall and is covered in thick vegetation
Rainforest
Place the following food chain in order:
hawk, mouse, grass, snake
Grass, mouse, snake, hawk
What important gas does photosynthesis give off that organisms, (including humans), need to survive?
Oxygen
What is the purpose of producers in a food web?
Passes energy from the sun to all other organisms.
What are consumers that eat only other consumers to get energy from the sun?
secondary consumers
What is a biome's list of the way energy from the sun is passed on by producers, consumers, and decomposers?
food web
food web
If producers were removed from the food chain, what trophic level would be affected first?
Primary consumers
During photosynthesis, carbon dioxide enters through which part of the plant?
leaf
What are examples of producers?
Grass, Trees, all green plants
What is an organism that only eats producers?
Primary consumer
In this ecosystem, the trees change color and loose their leaves
Deciduous Forest
List the trophic levels in order:
tertiary consumer, secondary consumer, producers primary consumer,
Producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, tertiary consumers
Photosynthesis is the process plants use to make _____.
Food
What is an organism that only eats plants?
herbivore
Which consumer only eats other consumers?
Tertiary consumers
Salt concentration, water temperature, plankton, adn the whale shark might all be used in a description of an __________ ecosystem