Ecosystems 1
An organism that eats meat
What is a carnivore?
An organism that uses sunlight to create its food
What is a producer
A humid and warm ecosystem
What is a rainforest?
any living thing that feeds on both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
Vulture is eating a dead animal it is a
What is a scavenger
An organism that eats plants and animals
What is an Omnivore?
Many of the same species is a...
What is a population?
Something that eats something else for food.
What is a consumer?
An organism that feeds on dead and decaying organisms
What are scavengers?
Plants use the process to take in carbon dioxide and push out oxygen.
What is photosynthesis?
In a food web the mushroom and bacteria are....
What are decomposers?
An organism that only eats plants.
What is a herbivore?
Air, water, and the Sun are all ......
What are abiotic factors?
Animals in an ecosystem must ____________ for food, water, territory, and mates.
What is compete?
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 ecosystem is
What is a food web?
At the bottom of the food pyramid, what are those organisms called
What are producers
A ecosystem that marine life live
What is a salt water or ocean ecosystem?
A plant makes food for me
What is a herbivore?
The living and nonliving things and the ways they interact in an environment (ex: redwood forest, swamp, Mojave Desert)
What is an ecosystem?
What is something that all living things need?
What is sunlight, air, water, and soil.
Living and nonliving things are components of this
What are ecosystems?
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 a particular organism lives in is called....
What is a habitat?
Otters, fish, and alligators live here
What is river or fresh water ecosystem?
A lizard being chased by a owl
What is a prey?
a dry climate ecosystem
What is a desert?
another word for weather
What is climate
a shark chasing a seal
a predator
The type of succession beginning with bare rock.
What is primary succession?
Who is usually at the top of the food chain?
What is carnivores?
what is mold or fungus