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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?
Two basic types of ecosystems are...
What are terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems?
Another name for water cycle
What is the hydrologic cycle?
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?
This occurs when leaves from the trees and other vegetation give off water vapor through pores in their leaves.
What is transpiration?
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?
A relationship when one organism lives on or in another for nourishment.
What is parasitism?
A Living thing
What is an organism?
Another word form any form of water that falls from the sky.
What is Precipitation?
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?
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?
This is a series of continuous interactions between water (matter) and the Sun's energy.
What is the Water Cycle?
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
Plants use this process to turn light into chemical energy
What is photosynthesis
Energy from this is the driving force for most biotic and abiotic cycles on the surface of the Earth.
What is the Sun?
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?
All energy flow flows in this.
What is a food or web pyramid?
All the populations living in one place ?
What is Community?
This is the process in which liquid water changes into invisible water vapor.
What is evaporation?
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?
Long-term relationship between 2 different organisms.
What is symbiosis?
Water from precipitation that flows over land as surface water instead of being absorbed into the ground or evaporating.
What is runoff?
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?