Ecosystem roles
This role in an ecosystem is responsible for creating its own energy.
Producer
This shows a series of steps in which one organism eats another to get its energy
food chain
This is the word used to describe the place an organism lives.
habitat
This process is what plants use to create their own food.
photosynthesis
This characteristic of a biome describes the weather over a long period of time.
Climate
This role is responsible for getting its energy from eating other organisms.
Consumer
This complex set of connections shows where every organism in an ecosystem gets its energy from.
Food Web
This is a collection of the same species in an ecosystem
population
This is the process animals use to gain their energy.
Respiration
This characteristic of all biomes is most important to life.
Amount of Water
This role is responsible for breaking down dead organisms into nutrients available for other organisms.
Decomposer
This geometric shape models how the amount of energy between organisms changes from one level to another.
Energy Pyramid
This is a non-living part of an ecosystem.
abiotic factor
This is the bi-product (waste) after plants have made their own energy and is quite useful to animals.
Oxygen
This Biome is the driest of all biomes on earth
desert
This role is responsible for only eating other plant material.
Herbivore
What does the direction of the arrow in a food chain and food web tell you?
The direction the energy flows between organisms.
This word describes all the populations of organisms in a certain area.
community
This is the bi-product (waste) after animals have broken down their food to create energy. Plants find this waste quite useful.
Carbon Dioxide
What is the relationship between a biome and an ecosystem?
An ecosystem is found within a biome.
This role is given to an organism that has the most connections in a food web and is often considered the most important organism in its ecosystem.
Keystone Species
In a food web, if an organism's arrows are all pointing towards itself, what does this say about its role in an ecosystem?
It is at the top of the ecosystem
This term is used to describe the organism that eats an organism that eats a producer
Secondary Consumer.
What are the 3 elements found in the chemical formulas of photosynthesis and respiration
Oxygen
Hydrogen
This troubling creature seems to be the cause of most problems all biomes are facing.
humans