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something that produces food for itself
What is a producer?
Any living thing that feeds on the waste of dead bodies of other living things.
What is a decomposer?
The prefix "bio-" such as in "biology" or "biotic" means...
What is "life"?
Name 2 abiotic factors found in any ecosystem
What are air, water, rocks, soil, sunlight, temperature, etc. Answers vary.
Name one type of terrestrial ecosystem.
What are...
coniferous forests, deciduous forests, rainforest, grasslands, desert, or tundra
Another word form any form of water that falls from the sky.
What is Precipitation?
Name one type of Aquatic Ecosystem.
What are...
Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, Stream, Ponds, Estuaries and Saltmarshes
any animal that feeds mainly on plants; plant-eater
What is a herbivore?
The type of consumer most humans are
What are omnivores?
A Living thing
What is an organism?
The likely resulting effect on producers if the primary consumers go extinct.
What is... Producer populations will increase
This tropical biome is known for its incredible biodiversity and high humidity among its trees.
What is tropical rainforest?
bacteria, fungi, worms, ants, beetles, sow bugs
What are some examples of decomposers?
The arrows in a food chain and food web represent....
What is the flow of energy?
Three types of organisms in an ecosystem.
What are producers, consumers, and decomposers?
True or False: Most of Earth's ecosystems get their energy from the Earth's core.
What is false? Most of the ecosystems get energy from the Sun.
This biome includes diverse animals such as bison, prairie dogs, and grasshoppers.
What are grasslands?
An organism that eats meat
What is a Carnivore
Plants use this process to turn light into chemical energy
What is photosynthesis
Where the "lost" energy goes when it leaves the energy pyramid
What is "it transforms into heat energy"?
Name one way a polar bear is not adapted for a desert biome
Answers vary.
An organism that eats plants and animals
What is an Omnivore?
The diagram showing how energy moves or is lost as it moves up trophic levels of the food web
What is an energy pyramid?
On the pyramid, what is the organism that eats the producers called?
What are primary consumers?
Name a behavioral adaptation
Answers vary.
This is the biome here around River City Middle School
What is deciduous forest?