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Ecosystems Vocabulary
The Food Chain/Food Web
Changes in Ecosystems
Organisms in an Ecosystem
Mish-Mash Leftovers
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Its the term we use describe all the members of one species that live within an ecosystem.
What is population?
100
This is the main source of energy for life on Earth.
What is the sun?
100
When the food supply for particular species decreases in an ecosystem, this might happen.
What is the species' population might decrease?
100
This type of organism only eats plants.
What is an herbivore?
100
It's what we call anything that has parts that work together for a purpose.
What is a system?
200
This is the place in an ecosystem where an organism lives.
What is an organism's habitat?
200
This is what we call living organisms that make their own food.
What are producers?
200
It's what wil probably happen if a population of animals in an ecosystem dies of disease.
What is the food web will have to change so that other animals who depend on that newly extinct animal don't die too?
200
These organisms digest the waste and remains of dead plants and animals.
What are decomposers?
200
In a food web, if a cow is a consumer, then grass is one of these.
What is a producer?
300
This word means all the living and non-living things in an environment and the ways they interact.
What is an ecosystem?
300
This is what we call living organisms that cannot make their own food, so they have to eat other living things.
What are consumers?
300
Its what would happen in an ecosystem if there were no decomposers.
What is all living organisms would eventually die?
300
These are organisms that only eat meat.
What are carnivores?
300
It's the amount of the Earth's surface that is covered with water.
What is 3/4 or 75%?
400
The different populations who live in the same ecosystem and who cooperate and work together are called this.
What is the community?
400
After sunlight, this is the next link in the food chain.
What are producers?
400
Its the name for changes organisms make over time in order to be able to adjust and live better in their environments.
What are adaptations?
400
These organisms eat both plants and animals. Humans are this type of organism.
What are omnivores?
400
It's what we call a system of overlapping food chains.
What is a food web?
500
This term refers to the specific role or job an organism has in its ecosystem or community.
What is a niche?
500
These are two important jobs of a freshwater snail in the swamp food chain.
What is to eat algae and to be eaten by blue herons?
500
It's what would happen to life on Earth if the sun burned out.
What is plants could not make their own food, and then all life would end?
500
It's the job of decomposers, and it's why they are so important to the existance of life on Earth.
What is putting nutrients and minerals back into the soil by breaking down dead organisms?
500
This is what we call an animal that gets its food by hunting or killing.
What is a predator?