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an organism that makes it own food
What is a producer?
Any living thing that feeds on the waste of dead plants and animals
What is a decomposer?
What do all food chains begin with?
Producers
Another name for all the water on Earth
Hydrosphere
What is the least complext level of an ecosystem?
Individual organism
What is a consumer?
an organism that eats other organisms for food.
Name the three levels of consumers in the food chain
primary, secondary, tertiary
This occurs when leaves from the trees and other vegetation give off water vapor through pores in their leaves.
What is transpiration?
Name two types of Aquatic Ecosystems.
What are...
Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, Stream, Ponds, Estuaries and Saltmarshes
any animal that feeds mainly on plants; plant-eater
What is a herbivore?
Earth's crust, rocks, mountains and landforms.
What is parasitism?
A Living thing
What is an organism?
Another word form any form of water that falls from the sky.
What is Precipitation?
Freshwater and Saltwater can be found in this ecosystem.
What is an estuary?
What are some examples of decomposers?
bacteria, fungi, worms,
The arrows in a food chain and food web represent....
What is the flow of energy?
Three types of organisms in an ecosystem.
producers, consumers, and decomposers
This is a series of continuous interactions between water (matter) and the Sun's energy.
What is the Water Cycle?
This ecosystem includes diverse animals such as bison, prairie dogs, and grasshoppers.
What are grasslands?
What are phytoplankton
The producers in the aquatic foodchain.
Plants use this process to turn light into chemical energy
What is photosynthesis
Energy from this is the driving force for most biotic and abiotic cycles on the surface of the Earth.
What is the Sun?
What are 2 events that can take place and affect and change an ecosystem?
What is...
Deforestation, Wildfires, Flooding, and Oil Spills
Name the three states of the water cycle
Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation
On the pyramid what is the organism that eats the producer called
What are primary consumers?
Name the four spheres of the Earth
What is symbiosis?
Water from precipitation that flows over land as surface water instead of being absorbed into the ground or evaporating.
What is runoff?
Wildfires can spread quickly when there are many things that can burn, One way to limit wild fires is to...
Firefighters do 'controlled burn to get rid of the small plants since they make extra "fuel" that can burn.