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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?
What is benefits both organisms.
Name two types of terrestrial ecosystems
What are...
coniferous forests, deciduous forests, rainforest, grasslands
Represents the natural cycle in which nitrogen in the air is used by plants and animals, and is released into the air again.
What is the nitrogen cycle?
A Living thing
What is an organism?
What is Parasitism?
When one organism is harmed and the other benefits.
Name two types of Aquatic Ecosystems.
What are...
Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, Stream, Ponds, Estuaries and Saltmarshes
These types of ecosystems include diverse types of fish, amphibians, turtles, and beavers.
What are lakes and ponds?
any animal that feeds mainly on plants; plant-eater
What is a herbivore?
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?
What is Commensalism?
What is the relationship of an organism that benefits and other neither benefits or is harmed.
Freshwater and Saltwater can be found in this ecosystem.
What is an estuary?
Organisms that take in Carbon Dioxide
What are plants?
bacteria, fungi, worms, ants, beetles, sow bugs
What are some examples of decomposers?
Plants use this process to turn light into chemical energy
What is photosynthesis
What is an example of 2 organisms in a Parasitic relationship?
This ecosystem includes diverse animals such as bison, prairie dogs, and grasshoppers.
What are grasslands?
How Carbon gets cycled back into the earth
What is through decomposers?
An organism that eats meat
What is a Carnivore
All energy flow flows in this.
What is a food or web pyramid?
All the populations living in one place ?
What is Community?
What is a relationship that is Mutually Beneficial?
What are 2 events that can take place and affect and change an ecosystem?
What is...
Deforestation, Wildfires, Flooding, and Oil Spills
Plants and animals use nitrates for this reason
What is to create the proteins they need to live and grow?
An organism that eats plants and animals
What is an Omnivore?
What are Abiotic factors?
air, water, minerals, light, soil
Long-term relationship between 2 different organisms.
What is symbiosis?
This aquatic ecosystem has many types of ecosystems depending on conditions (sunlight, depth, temperature, salinity).
What are oceans?
People are upsetting the nitrogen cycle by building up too much nitrogen in this.
What is the air?
An organism that feeds on dead and decaying organisms
What are scavengers?
On the pyramid what is the organism that eats the producer called
What are primary consumers?
What are Biotic factors?
What is plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria
What is an example of Commensalism?
What is a whale and a barnacle.
Wildfires can spread quickly when there are many things that can burn, One way to limit wild fires is to...
Firefighters do 'controlled burn to get rid of the small plants since they make extra "fuel" that can burn.
Clouds are made up of these
What are water droplets and ice crystals?