Biotic & Abiotic
This term describes all living parts of an ecosystem.
What are biotic factors?
The main source of energy for most ecosystems.
What is the Sun?
Shows one pathway of energy flow.
What is a food chain?
Water turning into vapor.
What is evaporation?
Energy is recycled. (True or False?)
What is False?
This term describes nonliving parts like sunlight and water.
What are abiotic factors?
Organisms that make their own food.
What are producers?
Shows many connected feeding relationships.
What is a food web?
Water vapor forming clouds.
What is condensation?
Matter is recycled. (True or False?)
What is True?
All members of one species in an area.
What is a population?
Organisms that eat other organisms.
What are consumers?
Eats only plants.
What is a herbivore?
Water falling from clouds.
What is precipitation?
This model shows energy amounts at each level.
What is an energy pyramid?
All populations living together in one area.
What is a community?
Only about this percent of energy transfers to the next level.
What is 10%?
Breaks down dead organisms.
What is a decomposer?
Plants take in this gas during photosynthesis.
What is carbon dioxide?
If decomposers disappeared, nutrients would ______.
What is not return to the soil?
This includes living and nonliving things interacting together.
What is an ecosystem?
Energy decreases as it moves ______ the energy pyramid.
What is up?
In the chain Sun → Grass → Rabbit → Snake → Hawk, this is the secondary consumer.
What is the snake?
Animals release this gas during respiration.
What is carbon dioxide?
Without producers, most life would ______.
What is not survive?