Vocab
An organism that makes its own food.
What is a producer?
An organism that eats a producer.
What is a primary consumer?
The linear relationship of feeding in an ecosystem.
What is a food chain?
The producer in the following food web.
What is grass?
Anything that humans use that is from the environment.
What is a natural resource?
Rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is precipitation?
The typical weather pattern in an area over time (determined by temperature & precipitation).
What is climate?
An example of a keystone species from our readings or videos.
What is a gray wolf, otter, or sea star?
A primary consumer in the food web.
What is a rabbit, mouse, or grasshopper?
A resource that can be replaced instantly or in a short amount of time.
What is a renewable resource?
The continuous process by which water moves from the Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back.
What is the water cycle?
What is the diagram that shows all of the complex feeding relationships in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
The definition of biodiversity.
What is the number of different species in an area?
A secondary consumer in the food web.
What is the fox, owl, frog, bird, or hawk.
A resource that cannot be reused and does not replace itself in a short amount of time.
What is a nonrenewable resource?
What is a scavenger?
A type of consumer that eats dead organisms AND returns their nutrients back to the soil.
What is a decomposer?
The two reasons that biodiversity is important.
What are economic benefits and ecological benefits?
The two organisms that are on multiple levels of consumerism in the food web.
What are the owl and the hawk?
Two examples of resources that cannot be replaced easily.
What is coal and oil?
Providing endangered or threatened animals with a safe area to reproduce in a zoo or wildlife preserve.
What is captive breeding?
A species that influences the survival of many other species in an ecosystem.
What is a keystone species?
The three things that we can do to protect biodiversity.
What is captive breeding, laws/treaties, and habitat preservation.
The reason it is important to study and keep track of food webs.
What is to track the relationships between species and ensure a healthy ecosystem?
What is sunlight, water, wind, and trees?