Basics
This term means all the living and nonliving things that interact in one place.
What is an Ecosystem
What is a producer?
This type of organism makes its own food using sunlight.
What is a food chain?
This shows how energy moves from one organism to another.
This can happen if one organism is removed from a food chain.
What is a disruption to the ecosystem?
These are the living parts of an ecosystem, such as plants and animals.
What are biotic factors?
What is a consumer?
This type of organism eats other organisms for energy.
Energy in a food chain always begins with this.
What is the sun?
If plants die, this group of organisms is affected first.
What are herbivores?
These are nonliving parts of an ecosystem like sunlight, water, and temperature.
What are abiotic factors?
What are decomposers?
These organisms break down dead plants and animals and return nutrients to the soil.
In a food chain, arrows show the direction that this moves.
What is energy?
Without decomposers, this would build up in an ecosystem.
What is dead plants and animals?
This abiotic factor provides energy for almost all life on Earth.
What is sunlight?
What is an omnivore?
This type of consumer eats both plants and animals.
What is a top consumer
This organism is usually at the top of the food chain and receives the least energy.
Why are decomposers are essential to ecosystems.
They recycle nutrients back into the soil