Ecosystems 1
bacteria, fungi, worms, ants
What are decomposers?
algae, grass, elm trees
What are producers?
Living organisms in an ecosystem are called...
What is biotic?
Air, water and the sun are all..
What are abiotic factors?
An organism that feeds on dead and decaying organisms.
What are decomposers?
A single self-contained living thing...
What is an organism?
The source of energy that is absorbed by plants for photosynthesis.
What is sunlight?
An organism that uses sunlight to create its food.
What is a producer?
An organism that eats something else for food
What is a consumer
Plants, animals, bacteria and fungi are examples of this type of factor in an ecosystem.
What are biotic factors?
The flow of energy from a producer to consumers.
What is a food chain?
The direction of the arrows show...
What is energy flow?
The organisms at the bottom of the food pyramid are called...
What are producers?
The largest of the aquatic ecosystems.
What is an ocean?
Deer, maple trees, moderate rainfall, squirrels
What is the deciduous forest?
What is the desert?
Plants use this process to turn light into chemical energy.
What is photosynthesis?
Food chains that are interconnected/overlap in a particular ecosystem?
What is a food web?
An organism that eats secondary consumers
What is a tertiary consumer?
Contains water with and without sodium
What is an estuary?
End product that is produced through photosynthesis...my scientific formula is C₆H₁₂O₆
What is glucose (sugar)?
Plants add this abiotic factor to the environment, which makes animal and human life possible
What is oxygen?
The amount of energy transferred to each trophic level in a food web?
What is 10%?
What is competition?
Something that is needed by an organism and is not infinite in its abundance in an ecosystem; once exhausted, the organisms that need it cannot survive
What is limited resources?