Like a scientist
A scientist who studies ecosystems.
What is an ecologist
Eats animals and almost nothing else
What is a carnivore?
This is the source of all energy on Earth.
What is the sun?
It makes up air, water, rocks, plants and everything else.
What is matter?
Animal that hunts for its food.
What is a predator?
This scientist wanted to investigate the effects of pesticide on the organisms in an ecosystem.
Who is Rachel Carson?
What is a herbivore?
These are organisms that use energy from the sunlight to bring food matter into an ecosystem
What are plants?
A group of atoms joined together in a particular way.
What is a molecule?
Animal that is eaten by a predator
What is prey?
Scientists from around the world that investigate scientific questions and share ideas.
What is a scientific community?
Eats both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
A diagram that shows what eats what in an ecosystem.
A community of organisms together with its environment.
What is an ecosystem?
Organism that cannot make its own food and must CONSUME other food matter.
What is a consumer?
What scientists attempt to gather when investigating a scientific question.
What is evidence (or data)?
An organism that breaks down droppings or other dead organisms
What is a decomposer?
Plants need these 3 things to make their own food matter,
What is energy from the sun, water and carbon dioxide?
Includes all the living and nonliving things in an area.
What is environment?
Organism that PRODUCES its own food using energy from the sun in a process called photosynthesis.
What is a Producer?
Scientists do these 3 things during their investigations.
Ask questions, gather evidence and make arguments.
An example of a "producer" in the Everglades Swamp Ecosystem
What is algae, or bladderwort plant, or marsh grass?
What is "interact"?
An example of a "tertiary consumer" (top predator) in the Everglades Swamp Ecosystem
What is an alligator?