Vocabulary
They make their own food.
Producers
This represents energy flow in one direction
A food chain
Grass --> Grasshopper --> _______________ --> Snake --> Hawk
A frog
All the nonliving and living things in an area
An ecosystem
Cannot produce their own food.
Consumer
This energy flow represents the complicated interconnect energy flow among organisms.
A food web
An example of a decomposer
fungi, worms, certain insects, mold, or bacteria
The average temperature and precipitation of an environment
Climate
They break down the organic matter in the dead bodies of plants and animals.
Decomposers
This symbol represent the flow of energy from one organism to another.
An arrow
In a food chain, a lion, wolf, bunny, or bird would all be....
A consumer
When an ecosystem experiences lack of water it is also called what?
A drought
having a short supply; shortage, or limited resources available.
Scare or Scarcity
Sun ----> Flower
What is giving its energy and what is getting the energy?
The sun is giving its energy to the flower and the flower is getting its energy from the sun.
An animal that is part of more than one food chain is part of this.
A food web
List 2 human activities that affect our ecosystem.
Construction, cutting trees, hunting, pollution
No longer in existence
Extinct
What is passed along in a food chain?
Energy and matter
A food chain links a producer, a herbivore and one or more ______________
Consumer
List 2 natural events that affect our ecosystem.
Fire, floods, tornado, drought