Ecosystems
All the living and nonliving things in a place is an ...
Ecosystem
Dead plant and animal materials.
Decomposers
Where do all food chains and food webs begin?
The Sun
These are the largest sized producers of oxygen gas
Trees
Which is true. Animals help plants by 1) making food. 2) finding water. 3) spreading seeds. 4) providing energy.
3. Spreading Seeds
in thinking about ecosystems, a community is what?
All the living things in an ecosystem.
Only grasses, Leaves, Seeds, Roots, Stems and/or fruits.
Herbivores
Please give a definition for a food chain.
A series of organisms that depend on one another for food.
How are oxygen gas and carbon dioxide gas recycled?
Producers use carbon dioxide gas from the atmosphere to make food. Oxygen gas is left over and released into the atmosphere. Consumers breathe Oxygen gas and use it to release the energy from food. The result is Carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere. The cycle starts over.
A parasite cannot live for long outside of this.
A Host
The place where an animal lives and grows is called a ...
Habitat
What does the suffix Vore mean?
Eater
These organisms use sunlight and earth minerals to make food for themselves. They are sometimes eaten by others.
Producers. Will Also take plants or algae.
Algae
True or False: Mutualism is when two organisms live together or close together and they both help one another to survive.
True
In thinking about ecosystems, a population is what?
All the members of a single type of organism.
Insects, Rodents, Goats, Chicken, Snakes, Fish, Gazelles, Turtles, Boars, Foxes, Lizards
Carnivores
These organisms cannot make their own food. To get energy they must eat other living organisms.
Consumers.
When oxygen gas and carbon dioxide gas are not in use, where are they stored?
In the atmosphere and in the water
Name this relationship when one organism lives in or on another organism and hurts the other organism by living there.
Parasitism
Which ones are not a part of the African rainforest community: Gorilla troops, Banana Trees, Limestone Cliffs, Macaws, Morpho Butterflies, Birds of Paradise, Kapok Trees, Glistening Waterfalls.
Limestone Cliffs and Glistening Waterfalls
Beets, Lettuce, chicken, Potatoes, Apples, Mangos, Fish, Rice, Wheat, Turkey
Omnivores
How is a food chain different from a food web?
A food web is several connected food chains.
What is a nonliving consumer of oxygen gas
combustion or fires
What is commensalism
When two organisms live together or close, and one organism is benefitted, but the second organism receives neither benefit nor harm.