Plant Power
This is the gas that plants breathe in from the air to make their food.
What is carbon dioxide?
All energy in every food web on Earth can be traced back to this original source.
What is the sun.
Fungi and bacteria are examples of this group that breaks down dead stuff.
What are Decomposers?
This is a diagram that shows many overlapping and connected food chains.
What is a food web?
Animals breathe in Oxygen and breathe out this specific gas.
What is Carbon Dioxide?
Plants get the most of their weight/mass from these two things.
These are organisms (like plants) that create their own food energy.
What are Producers?
Decomposers are important because they return these to the soil for plants to use again.
What are Nutrients?
If the population of prey (like mice) decreases, what will happen to the predators (like hawks)?
What is Decrease (they have less food)?
This is the constant movement of water from the ground to the sky and back.
What is the Water Cycle?
This is the process plants use to turn sunlight, water, and CO2 into sugar energy.
What is photosynthesis
An animal that eats only plants is known by this scientific name.
What is a Herbivore?
This is the scientific word for when dead matter breaks down and rots away.
What is Decomposition?
These are the living parts of an ecosystem, such as trees, birds, and bugs.
What are Biotic factors?
Matter is never truly lost; it is constantly being moved and ________.
What is Recycled?
While plants need this to grow, it is not their "food," but rather the energy source used to make food.
What is sunlight?
This term describes an animal, like a bear or a human, that eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
These are the special chemicals decomposers release to break down matter outside their bodies.
What are Enzymes?
These are the non-living parts of an ecosystem, like sunlight, water, and rocks.
What are Abiotic factors?
When water vapor cools down and turns back into a liquid to form clouds, it is called this.
What is Condensation?
These are the tiny "mouths" or openings on leaves that let air in and out.
What is stomata?
In a food chain, the arrow always points toward the organism that is doing this.
What is Eating (or Receiving the energy)?
If decomposers disappeared, name one thing that would happen to a forest.
What is: Dead matter would pile up / Nutrients would never return to soil.
This is a species that is not native to an area and causes harm to the existing food web.
What is an Invasive Species?
This is the gas that plants release as waste, which animals then need to survive. (A) What is Oxygen?
What is Oxygen?