Ecosystems
Community containing all of the living and non-living factors in an area.
Ecosystem
Give an example of abiotic factors in an ecosystem.
bark, clouds, water, rocks, sand, soil, sunlight
________________ make their own food.
Plants or Producers
Food chains always start with __________
The Sun
An organism that eats dead plants or animals.
Scavenger
The study of the environment and living things.
Ecology
Give an example of biotic factors in an ecosystem.
leopard, flowers, grass, trees, frog, butterfly
According to how they obtain food, living things in ecosystems and either __________ or ___________
producers or consumers
______ is a diagram of the flow of energy from one organism to another.
Food Chain
An organism that breaks down dead plants and animals into simpler elements.
Decomposer
All the living things of the same species that live in an ecosystem is a _______________
Population
The ecosystem is made up of two types of factors:
abiotic and biotic
Obtains energy from feeding on other organisms.
Consumers
Continue the food chain:
Producer --------->_______________ ---------->Secondary consumer
primary consumer
The act of breaking down dead tissue into simpler elements.
Decomposition
All the different populations of living things that live together in the same ecosystem is a _____________.
community.
An organism that eats both plants and animals.
Omnivore
_____________ are consumers that only feed on plants.
Herbivores
Diagram showing more than one food chain within an ecosystem.
Food Web
Give an example of each: A scavenger and a Decomposer
Open Answer -
Scavenger: Vulture
Decomposer: Maggots
An individual complete Living Thing
Organism
Explain the difference between Flora and Fauna.
________________ are secondary consumers and eat other animals.
Carnivores
Tell an example of food chain:
Open answer (Sun--->grass --> rabbit --> fox)
Mass or matter cannot be created or destroyed by any natural means, it can only change form. This is known as...
The Law of Conservation of Mass