producers
Rename producers in one word. This word is a good synonym for producers.
What is plants?
These organisms get energy by eating both plants and animals.
What are omnivores?
Decomposers do important work.
What is break apart dead material and return nutrients to the Earth?
The direction that arrows should go when documenting an energy exchange.
Nonliving things in an ecosystem.
What is abiotic?
Which type of consumer survives by only eating producers?
What is primary consumer or herbivore?
These secondary consumers get their energy by consuming only other consumers.
What is a carnivore?
Examples of some in our ecosystem.
What are snails, slugs, beetles, fungi, and bacteria?
What is a food chain?
Examples of 3 abiotic factors in our ecosystem.
What is air, sun, rocks, dirt, water?
Producers are important to our survival because they take _________ out of the atmosphere.
What is Carbon Dioxide?
These consumers are at the top of the food chain. Each ecosystem can support only a few.
What are apex predators?
This would happen in our woods without decomposers.
What is the woods would be full of leaves!?
Many interconnected food chains.
What is a food web?
___________ cycles through ecosystems.
What is matter?
In addition to sunlight and water, producers need this in order to grow.
What is air?
Ecosystems exist in a balance. The different parts effect one another. Some organisms have a very large impact, such as otter.
What are keystone species?
This helps fungi to do its work.
What is water? (Would also accept the breaking up of leaves to stepping and hiding animals - such as in our leave pile simulation)
Explain why energy does not cycle through an ecosystem.
Energy is used by organisms to live and survive. While some energy is passed from one organism to another, some energy is lost along the way.
This is the definition of matter.
What is anything that takes up space and has weight.
This is the process used by plants to create their own energy.
What is photosynthesis?
If otter disappear, the entire ecosystem will collapse. Explain.
Without otter to eat the sea urchins, their population will explode. They will eat the kelp. When the kelp disappears, there is no place for fish to hide or lay eggs and the food for other organisms has disappeared.
This is the most common form of decomposer in a marine ecosystem.
What is bacteria?
For an ecosystem to be successful, it must have more of this component than any other.
What is producers?
List 2 inquiries that could be used to prove that air has weight.
What is weighing a balloon, weighting a ball or floating a scuba tank?