Chemistry Check
This tells us whether water is acidic, basic, or neutral.
What is pH?
An organism that makes its own food (often using sunlight)
What is a producer?
The name of the mini ecosystems we built using sand, gravel, and water to host water plants and animals.
What is an aquarium?
An animal that eats plants, like a deer or caterpillar. Note: question not about diet
What is a primary consumer?
A group of parts that work together to do something.
What is a system?
The number that represents neutral on the pH scale.
An animal that eats only plants.
What is an herbivore?
The name of the mini ecosystems we built using gravel, soil, moss and leaf litter host plants and other organisms like worms, slugs, and pill bugs (aka rollie pollies).
What is a terrarium?
These consumers eat primary consumers.
What are secondary consumers?
These organisms helped ancient forests turn into soil about 420 million years ago.
What are fungi?
When something has low pH, it is said to have a lot of these ions
What is H+ (hydrogen)?
This group breaks down waste and dead things in an ecosystem.
What are decomposers?
The word for nonliving parts of an ecosystem.
What is abiotic?
These top-level consumers have no predators in their ecosystem.
What are tertiary consumers?
This type of relationship happens when two organisms live closely together and at least one benefits—like fungi helping plants get nutrients.
What is a symbiotic relationship?
When a solution is basic, it has a lot of these ions inside.
What is hydroxide (OH-)?
The actual source of chemical energy in food
What is the Sun?
This form of nitrogen is safe for water plants but harmful in high amounts.
What is nitrate?
A 3-sided diagram that shows how energy moves from one level of organisms to another.
What is a trophic pyramid?
These decomposers aren’t fungi or bacteria—they’re animals like worms and insects that chew up dead material.
What are detritivores?