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?
an organism that hunts, kills, and eats other organisms
What is a predator
Plants source of energy
What is sun
receives low amounts of precipitation, coldest of all biomes
What is a tundra?
An organism that feeds on dead and decaying organisms
What are scavengers?
Plants use this process to turn light into chemical energy
What is photosynthesis?
In a food web the mushroom and bacteria are....
What are decomposers?
one organism of one species
What is an individual?
Air, water, and the Sun are all ......
What is are abiotic factors?
Animals ____________ for food, water, territory, and mates.
What is an competition?
Any living thing that feeds on the waste of dead bodies of other living things.
What is a decomposer?
bacteria, fungi, worms, ants, beetles, sow bugs
What are some examples of decomposers?
Food chains that is interconnected/overlaps in a particular ecosystem
What is a food web?
At the bottom of the food pyramid, what are those organisms called
What are producers
How much of earth is saltwater?
70-75%
restriction of the number of organisms that can live in an area.
What is a limiting 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?
Living organisms in an ecosystem are called...
What is biotic?
An animal that eats plants or other animals and does not make its own food.
What is a consumer?
Mating calls, songs, and dances are all examples of
All the populations living in one place ?
What is Community?
the variety of species in an ecosystem
Biodiversity
The role that an organism plays in the ecosystem is called...
What is a niche?
Organism that begins to spread or expand its range from the site of its original introduction and that has the potential to cause harm to the environment, the economy, or to human health.
What is an invasive species?
How much energy is lost to the environment as heat as you move up trophic levels?
What is the 90% rule?
the study of the relationships and interactions of living things with their environment
What is Ecology?
very high annual rainfall, high average temperatures, nutrient-poor soil, and high levels of biodiversity
What is a rainforest?
Aquatic ecosystem consisting of brackish water
Estuary