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?
Data that is observed by gaining measurements or numerical data.
What it Quantitative data?
An organism that eats plants and animals
What is an Omnivore?
Many of the same species is a...
What is a population?
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?
What is an organism that only eats plants
what is a herbivore?
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?
Data that is observed using your 5 senses.
What is Qualitative data?
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
In the hypothesis: "If Shawn applies sunscreen, then Shawn with not get sunburnt" What is the dependent variable?
What is "not getting sunburnt"
the name of land ecosystems
What is terrestrial?
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?
An area that is suitable for a particular organism to live in is called....
What is a habitat?
All the populations living in one place ?
What is Community?
The living thing that parasites live off of....
What is a parasite?
The role that an organism plays in the ecosystem is called...
What is a niche?
This depends on the number of organisms in an ecosystem.
Density Dependent
An organism that eats plants in a food chain.
What is primary consumer?
Plants give off this gas that we need to survive.
What is oxygen?
An organism in a food chain that eats mostly herbivores.
What is secondary consumer?
If the hypothesis is tested often enough, the scientific community calls the hypothesis a _________.
What is a theory?