Show:
Parts of an ecosystem
Organism interactions
Indiana organisms interact
How organisms get and use energy
Hodgepodge
100
All living and nonliving things in an area and their interactions.
What is an ecosystem?
100
Any animal that is hunted by others for food.
What is a prey?
100
Looses all of its leaves for part of the year.
What is a deciduous plant?
100
How plants get their energy.
What is sunlight?
100
Any substance that damages the environment.
What is pollution?
200
All the living organisms in an ecosystem.
What is a biotic factor?
200
Organisms that get their energy by breaking down wastes and dead organisms.
What is a decomposer?
200
A plant that keeps green leaves on its branches all year long.
What is an Evergreen plant?
200
The gas that plants and organisms need to live.
What is oxygen
200
An attempt to preserve or protect an environment from harmful changes.
What is conservation?
300
The role an organism has in an ecosystem
What is a niche?
300
Organisms that eat both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
300
The thing that breaks down the tough chemical substance in wood and other plants.
What is fungi?
300
The process that plants use to make sugar for food.
What is photosynthesis?
300
The carnivore that feeds on dead animals.
What is a scavenger?
400
The number of organisms that can live a habitat.
What is the carrying capacity?
400
A series of steps by which energy moves from one type of living thing to another.
What is a food chain?
400
The decomposer that is small and can only be seen through a microscope.
What is bacteria?
400
The process by which cells break down sugar to release energy.
What is cellular respiration?
400
A plant or animal that does not grow naturally in an ecosystem.
What is a nonnative species?
500
This may happen if a population grows larger than the carrying capacity.
What is overcrowding?
500
A long term relationship between to different organisms.
What is symbiosis?
500
Decomposers that break down dead plant and animal remains.
What is an animal decomposer?
500
That thing that is present in every cell and are the cell's power producers.
What is mitochondria?
500
The interaction between organisms or species in which the fitness of one is lowered by the presence of another.
What is competition?