Ecosystem Basics
A community of living and non-living things interacting.
Ecosystem
A physical feature that helps an organism survive (ex. webbed feet).
Structural/Physical Adaptation
The original source of energy for almost all food chains.
The Sun
A positive human action that helps the environment.
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Interconnected food chains in an ecosystem.
Food Web
Any living part of an ecosystem, such as plants or animals.
Biotic Factor
A behaviour an organism does to survive (ex. hibernation).
Behavioural Adaptation
An organism that makes its own food using sunlight.
Producer
What is it called when chemicals or waste contaminate soil, water, or air.
Pollution
This type of consumer eats dead and decaying matter.
Decomposer
Non-living factors like sunlight, water, and temperature.
Abiotic Factor
An internal body process that helps survival (ex. producing venom).
Physiological Adaptation
What is a consumer that eats plants called?
Herbivore
A negative human action that helps the environment.
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The organism that is eaten by another.
Prey
The role an organism plays in its environment.
Niche
Give an example of a physical adaptation (don't use one that you may have already seen in this game).
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The organism that hunts another organism for food.
Predator
The process by which nutrients are returned to the environment after something dies.
Decomposition
The consumer that eats the producer in a food chain.
Primary Consumer
The place where an organism lives.
Habitat
Give an example of a behavioural adaptation (don't use one that you may have already seen in this game).
Ms. D will determine if answer is correct.
An organism that eats both plants and animals.
Omnivore
When one population changes and causes other populations to change as well, or another word for when things depend on each other.
Interdependence
The level in a food chain that receives the least energy.