Ecosystems 1
An animal that eats plants or other animals and does not make its own food.
What is a consumer?
An organism that uses sunlight to create its food
What is a producer?
any animal that feeds mainly on plants; plant-eater
What is a herbivore?
any living thing that feeds on both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
Cellular respiration occurs in this organelle.
What is the mitochondria?
The highest and most stable level of ecological succession.
What is a climax community?
There is a large population of rabbits.. the competition between snakes would be ____.
(high or low)
What is low?
This diagram shows how organisms obtain energy in an environment.
What is a food web?
Fungi are on the food chain and they are responsible for ________________
What is breaking down decaying materials
If there is a lot of rainfall in an ecosystem, there will be very little _______.
What is competition
Plants make ________using a process called________ .....
What are glucose and photosynthesis?
Examples of things that can cause an ecosystem to start at secondary succession are....
What is fire, tornadoes, hurricaines mudslides, or deforestation?
Animals ____________ for food, water, territory, and mates.
What is compete?
Organism that feeds on the waste of dead bodies of other living things, breaking them down into simpler forms and adding nutrients to the soil (ex: bacteria, worms, fungi)
What is a decomposer?
The study of the interactions between living things and their environments.
What is ecology?
Long term relationship between 2 different organisms where at least one depends on the other.
What is symbiosis?
This process allows plants to get rid of excess water so they do not burst.
What is transpiration?
The first inhabitants in ecological succession
What is a pioneer species?
An organism that eats dead and decaying organisms
What are scavengers?
If there are lot of consumers, there will need to be a lot of ______ to support them.
What is producers?
The source of all energy in a food web.
What is the sun?
Tiny holes on the underside of leaves and stems.
(Bonus: What helps to open them?)
What are stomata?
(Bonus: Guard Cells)
The main goal of ecological succcession.
What is equilibrium?
The form of symbiosis where one organism benefits and the other is unaffected.
What is commensalism?
How much energy is transferred between trophic levels?
What is 10%?
The form of energy cells can use
What is ATP
A bird eating leftover food in a crocodile's teeth is an example of...
What is mutualism?
The process in photosynthesis that requires energy from the sun to split water molecules apart.
What is the light reaction?
In Primary Succession, the base material is _____ and in Secondary Succession the base material is _____
What is rock and soil?