Ecosystems 1
Ecosystems 2
Ecosystems 3
Ecosystems 4
Ecosystems 5
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something that produces food for itself

What is a producer?

100

An organism that uses sunlight to create its food

What is a producer 

100

any animal that feeds mainly on plants; plant-eater

What is a herbivore?

100

any living thing that feeds on both plants and animals

What is an omnivore?

100

Living things obtain _____ from their environment and release _____ back into it.

What are matter and waste?

200
something that eats something else for food
What is a consumer?
200

The arrows in a food chain and food web represent....

What is the flow of energy?

200

Fungi are on the food chain and they are responsible for ________________

What is breaking down decaying materials

200

a system of overlapping food chains

What is a food web?

200

Since humans can eat food from many different ecosystems, they are part of many different ______.

What are food chains?

300

Air, water, and the Sun are all ...

What is are nonliving components in an ecosystem?

Or What is abiotic?

300

Any living thing that feeds on the waste of dead bodies of other living things.

What is a decomposer?

300

bacteria, fungi, worms, ants, beetles, yeast

What are some examples of decomposers?

300

Food chains that interconnect/overlap in a particular ecosystem

What is a food web?

300

A scientist that studies ecosystems and teaches others about them.

What is an ecologist?

400
the living and nonliving things and the ways they interact in an environment (ex: redwood forest, swamp, Mojave Desert)
What is an ecosystem?
400

An organism that feeds on dead and decaying organisms 

What are decomposers?

400

living and nonliving things are parts that make this.

What are ecosystems?

400

Living organisms in an ecosystem

What is biotic?

400

He concluded that plants do not get matter to grow from soil

Who is Jan van Helmont?

500

An organism that eats meat

What is a Carnivore

500

What does a food web show

Many food chains; how organisms rely on eachother for food/energy
500

Plants use sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water to create sugar and oxygen in this process 

What is photosynthesis?

500

An animal that eats plants or other animals and does not make its own food.

What is a consumer?

500

This is the process that breaks down food into simple materials that an animal’s body CAN USE.

What is digestion?

600

What is an organism that only eats plants

What is an herbivore?


600

An organism that eats plants and animals

What is an Omnivore?


600

In a food web the mushroom and  bacteria are....

What are decomposers?

600

Three types of organisms in an ecosystem.

What are producers, consumers, and decomposers?

600

This is what an animal‘s body does when it eats more food than it needs right away.

What is stores the extra food energy for later?
700

A gorilla, hog, raccoon, human are examples of .....

What are Omnivores?

700
the flow of energy from a producer to one or more consumers. (ie: linked together by their feeding relationships)
What is a food chain?
700

All food chains have this in common?

What is beginning with a producer?

700

A vulture is eating a dead animal. A vulture is a 

What is a scavenger

700

When a decomposer dies, its once-living material becomes waste which is then_____.

What is recycled back into the ecosystem?  (Released into the air, soil, and water of an ecosystem)