How does Energy Flow?
All the living and nonliving things in an environment.
What is an ecosystem?
Animals that eat only meat.
What are carnivores?
These fungi start inside of a tree.
What are conks?
This ecosystem is very dry.
What is a desert?
This ecosystem receives a lot of rain and is thick with plant growth.
What is a rain forest?
These organisms make their own food.
What are producers?
Animals that eat both plants and animals.
What are omnivores?
Some decomposers are too hard to see without a microscope.
What are microorganisms?
Living things in this ecosystem depend on how fast this system is moving.
What is a river ecosystem?
The top of the rain forest is called this.
What is the canopy?
These organisms depend on producers for food.
What are consumers?
Fungus, Bacteria and Invertabrates
What are the FBIs?
This decomposer has a long yellow colored slimy body.
What is a banana slug?
This system gets a medium amount of rain and is home to grasshoppers.
What is a grassland?
This rain forest is not very hot or cold.
What is a temperate rain forest?
These organisms break down plant and animal waste in to nutrients.
What re the decomposers?
A series of different food chains that tell who eats whom.
What is a food web?
These tiny organisms outnumber plants and animals that are easier to see.
What are microorganisms?
This ecosystem is covered with water at least part of the year.
What is a swamp?
This ecosystem is made from a ridge or mound of skeletal remains of tiny sea creatures.
What is a coral reef?
These animals rely on dead and decaying organisms to get their energy.
What are decomposers?
What is a relationship between two organisms called.
What is symbiosis?
This fungus is used to fight infections.
What is penicillium?
Permafrost makes this ecosystem unique.
What is the tundra?
Almost all of the nutrients needed by the rain forest can be found here.
What are the trees and shrubs?