Terrestrial Ecosystems
An ecosystem with very little rain, hot temperatures during the day, and cool temperatures at night.
What is the desert?
Water based ecosystem
What is aquatic ecosystem?
Something that represents a real object, event, or process
What is a model?
First level consumers are
What are herbivores?
A relationship where both organisms benefit
What is mutualism?
A warm, wet forest rich in plant and animal life.
What is a tropical rainforest?
Contains both salt water and freshwater
What is an estuary?
Gets energy from eating other living things
What is a consumer?
The first level of an energy pyramid
What are producers?
Show the feeding relationships among food chains
What is a food web?
Ecosystem with flat or rolling hills, prairie dogs, tall grasses, and few trees.
What is a grassland?
Has the same temperature throughout
What is a pond?
Producers make food by using the _______ energy
What is the sun?
Plants take in carbon dioxide and produce oxygen through
What is photosynthesis?
Another name for a salt marsh or estuary
What is brackish?
Land based ecosystem
What is a terrestrial ecosystem?
What are adaptations?
Passes from one living thing to the next in a food chain or web.
What is energy?
A bear is an ______________ in a food chain.
What is an omnivore?
Algae is a _____________ found in a pond.
What is producer?
Ecosystem with low temperatures, long winters, few trees, and permafrost.
What is a tundra?
There are less plants and animals at the bottom of the ocean because there is no ______________
What is sunlight?
Recycles nutrients back into the food web.
What are decomposers?
Primary source of energy
What is the sun?
Water temperature changes the deeper you go in the ocean because there is less __________________-
What is sunlight?