Ecosystems 1
An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
What is a consumer?
A consumer that only eats animals (meat)
What is a carnivore?
Producers take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen during this process
What is photosynthesis?
What are rain, hail, sleet and snow?
A plant's source of energy
What is sun?
A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
What is a food chain?
An organism that can make its own food
What is a producer?
A consumer that eats only plants
What is a herbivore?
Consumers take in oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide during this process
What is respiration?
This process changes liquid water into water vapor
What is evaporation?
Where all organisms energy can be traced back to in a food web
What is the Sun?
This is made up of many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem
What is a food web?
An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
What is a decomposer?
Plants use this process to turn light into chemical energy
What is photosynthesis?
This is the name for the process of burning fossil fuels
What is combustion?
This is the process of water vapor turning back into liquid water
What is condensation?
This is what happens to the amount of energy as you move from trophic level 1, to level to, and so on
What is the energy decreases?
These types of organisms are at the bottom of the food web
What are producers?
The living and nonliving things and the ways they interact in an environment (ex: redwood forest, swamp, Mojave Desert)
What is an ecosystem?
Organisms that eat both plants and animals
What are omnivores?
This is the process that traps heat in the atmosphere due to increased carbon
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
This is the process occurs when clouds become too "heavy" with water
What is precipitation?
An area that is suitable for a particular organism to live in is called....
What is a habitat?
These are the organisms in a food web that eat the producers
What are primary consumers?
Another name for living things
What are organisms?
A organism that eats already dead organisms
What is a scavenger?
These are three ways carbon dioxide can be released into the atmosphere
What are animal respiration, factories, volcanoes, burning fossil fuels?
This is the name for water that rushes down over land and into streams, lakes and rivers
What is runoff?
This is how much energy would be available at trophic level 3, if there were 2,050 calories of energy available at trophic level 1
What is 20.5 calories?
This is the name for the organism that eats the organism that eats the producer
What is the secondary consumer?