Vocabulary
These use a process called photosythesis to convert the suns energy into energy that can be obtained and used by consumers.
What are producers?
Plants use energy from this source.
What is the sun?
This activity is how animals obtain energy and matter.
What is eating?
These consumers consumer or eat plants and animals.
What is a omnivore?
This is when people remove a lot of trees from an area.
What is deforestation?
These obtain energy from plants and/or other animals.
What are consumers?
Plants also need what two other resources?
What is water and carbon dioxide?
Not to be confused with carnivors, this organism is an animal that hunts and eats other animals.
What is a predator?
These consumers only eat plants.
What are herbivores?
This is one way humans can help minimize or reduce the negative impact we can have on the global ecosystem.
What is recycling?
These break down dead materials and waste and return nutrients to the soil that can help producers to grow.
What are decomposers?
This is the product of photosythesis
What is sugar?
When a species or individuals try to use the same limited resources- such as food or space.
What is competiton?
These organisms eat or consume other animals.
What is a carnivore?
This means to protect ecosystems and natual resources so plants and animals can survive.
What is Conservation?
These are the three main types or categories of cosumers.
What are herbivores, omnivores, and carnivores?
Photosythesis takes place in this part of the plant.
What are leaves?
This is a realtionship in which one organism befits (parasite) and the other is harmed (host). Example: ticks on a dog.
What is parasitism?
All energy can be traced back to this.
Long term patterns of temperature and precipitation in an area.
What is climate?
This refers to all living and nonliving things in an area that interact.
What is an Ecosystem?
This is the gas that plants give off that humans and other animals breathe.
What is oxygen?
This is a close relationship between two different species that live together and help each other. Example: Clownfish and sea anemone.
What is symbiosis?
Warm blooded animals need to eat this often to maintain daily functions, including regulating body temperature, and survival.
What is constantly?
This can cause problems like, animal and plant species becoming extinct, flooding, drought, erosion, and landslides.
What is deforestation?