Living/Nonliving
All living and nonliving things that interact in an area is this.
What is an ecosystem?
Only eats meat
What is a carnivore?
This is the source of all energy on earth.
What is the sun?
An animal that is going into deep sleep in the winter is doing this.
What is hibernation?
Animal that hunts for its food.
What is a predator?
Periods of no rain also called this, can cause plants to die.
What is a drought?
Only eats plants
What is a herbivore?
Algae and trees are examples of these.
What are producers?
Name three things a plant needs for Photosynthesis.
What is air, sunlight, and water?
Animal that is eaten by a predator
What is prey?
Give 4 examples of nonliving things in an ecosystem.
What is air, soil, water, and sunlight?
Eats both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
The organism that eats the producer is called this.
What is a Primary Consumer?
Organism that obtains nutrients from dead organisms around it. Fungi and bacteria are examples of it.
What is a decomposer?
Organism that cannot make its own food.
What is a consumer?
Most plants store their food here.
What are stems or roots?
Scientists who study the environment are called this.
What are ecologists?
Organism that eats the primary consumer.
What is a Secondary Consumer?
This period of rest saves energy for a plant.
What is dormancy?
An event or change to an ecosystem that has lasting changes.
What is a disturbance?
Many consumers store food as this in their blood for a short period of time.
What is sugar?
Why do we need predators in our ecosystem?
Because without predators we have would have too much prey.
This can accurately show the complex feeding relationships among living things.
What is a food web?
Animals that move to a new place to meet their needs are doing this.
What is migrating?
The changes that take place after an ecosystem has been disturbed is called this.
What is succession?