Ecosystems 1
An organism that eats meat
What is a Carnivore
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?
Any living thing that feeds on the waste of dead bodies of other living things.
What is a decomposer?
Bacteria, fungi, worms, ants, beetles, and sow bugs are examples of these.
What are some examples of decomposers?
In a food web the mushroom and bacteria are....
What are decomposers?
What do plants need in order to make glucose?
What is water, oxygen, air, and sunlight?
Food chains that is interconnected/overlaps in a particular ecosystem
What is a food web?
The flow of energy from a producer to one or more consumers. (ie: linked together by their feeding relationships)
What is a food chain?
An organism that eats other organisms for food.
What is a consumer?
What is released from plants during the process of photosynthesis?
What is another word for ecosystem? For example: Tundra, Rainforest, Desert
What is biome?
Plants use this process to turn light into chemical energy
What is photosynthesis?
Living organisms in an ecosystem are called...
What is biotic?
Air, water, and the Sun are all ......
What is are abiotic factors?
The living and nonliving things and the ways they interact in an environment (ex: redwood forest, swamp, Mojave Desert)
What is an ecosystem?
On the pyramid what is the organism that eats the producer called
What are primary consumers?
What would happen to the deer population in a Forrest ecosystem if they were to lose some of their predators and how would this affect the rest of the ecosystem?
What is the deer population would increase. This would cause a lower population of producers and and overpopulation of deer. This in turn could cause disease to spread amongst the deer.
This is shown by the arrows in a food chain.
What is transfer of energy?