something that produces food for itself
What is a producer?
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?
A gorilla, hog, raccoon, human are examples of .....
What are Omnivores?
The arrows in a food chain and food web represent....
What is the flow of energy?
What happens when you go down the food pyramid
The energy level goes down
Fungi are on the food chain and they are responsible for ________________
What is breaking down decaying materils
What is an organism that only eats plants
what is a herbivore?
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
An organism that eats plants and animals
What is an Omnivore?
An organism that feeds on dead and decaying organisms
What are scavengers?
Living organisms in an ecosystem
What is biotic?
Vulture is eating a dead animal it is a
What is a scavenger
In the a food web the mushroom and bacteria are....
What are decomposers?
An organism that eats meat
What is a Carnivore
What does a food web show
How animals rely on each other in an environment to live.
Plants use this process to turn light into chemical energy
What is photosynthesis
An animal that eats plants or other animals and does not make its own food.
What is a consumer?
On the pyramid what is the organism that eats the producer called
What are primary consumers?
All the populations living in one place ?
What is Community?
A relationship when both benefit each other.
What is mutualism?
A relationship when one organism lives on or in another for nourishment.
What is parasitism?
All energy flow flows in this.
What is a food or web pyramid?
Three types of organisms in an ecosystem.
What are producers, consumers, and decomposers?
Two basic types of ecosystems are...
What are terrestrial and aquatic ecisystems?
A 'role' or 'function' of an organisms ______ includes what it eats.
What is a niche?
There are only a few different species of plants, animals, and insects so there is low __________.
What is low diversity?
Look at the plants in the picture below.
Which abiotic factor most likely controls where the plants in this environment live?
What part of an ecosystem are a swarm of bees?
What is a population?
If an insect species lives in only a certain type of plant and that plant is removed, what part of the insects’ life is being affected?
What is its niche?
How are cacti able to survive in the desert with very little rainfall?
Cacti have long roots and leaves that store water.
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.