What are ecosystems
The area or place where an organism lives
What is habitat
Eats only other animals
What is carnivore?
A food chain always begins with water.
TRUE OR FALSE
False. A food chain alwyas begins with sunlight
The movement of worn away rocks or soil
What is erosion?
No longer exists.
What is extinct?
A lions habitat contains shrubs, trees and water
TRUE OR FALSE
True. A habitat contains all living and nonliving things that an organism needs to survive
Eats plants and other animals
What is an omnivore?
A diagram that shows the amount of energy that flows from producers to consumers.
Energy pyramid
Humans affect the environment when they build homes.
TRUE or FALSE
TRUE. People cut down forests and plow up grasslands to make room for the homes.
The remains or mark of an animal or plant the lived long ago
Fossil
All the living and nonliving things in an environment and the many ways they interact
What is ecosystem?
An herbivore may eat grass.
TRUE AND FALSE
True. Herbivores eat plants
Transfer of energy from one organism to another by eating and being eaten
Food Chain
Important material that living things need.
Resource
Bits of rock, sand, shell, and other material that harden into rock
What is sediments?
A population is all of the plants and animals that live within an ecosystem.
TRUE OR FALSE
False. A population is all the members of one species that live within an area of an ecosystem
Decomposers are dead animals or plants
TRUE OR FALSE
False. Decomposers are organisms that break down plant and animal waste and remains
System of overlapping food chains in which the flow of energy branches out in many directions
Food Web
Purple loosestrife is beneficial to animals.
TRUE OR FALSE
False. No animals eat purple loosestrife and it takes oevr space where other plants that animls might eta could grow.
Usually only the hard parts of animals become _____ because the soft parts often decay or are eaten.
What are fossils?
All of the members of one species that live in an area
What is population?
Makes its own food
What is a producer?
Producers and consumers are only eaten by one kind of organism in an ecosystem.
TRUE OR FALSE
False. Producers and consumers may be eaten by many kinds of organisms in an ecosystem.
Occurs when two or more living things need the same things to live
What is competition?
Some plants and animals that lived millions of years ago have left clues about their lives.
TRUE OR FALSE
True