Energy
An organism that makes their own food with sunlight or chemical energy.
What is a producer?
What does an ecosystem consist of?
Living and non living things that interact
Food webs are made from multiple overlapping ___ ___
What are food chains?
Besides sunlight, what are the 2 things that plants need to grow?
Water and air
The original source of almost all the energy in most ecosystems.
What is the sun?
Animals that need to eat to live
What are consumers? (herbivores & carnivores)
What is something that could hurt an ecosystem?
invasive species, human interaction
All food webs start with this.
What are producers?
What are the 2 things that plants make in photosynthesis?
oxygen and glucose
Organisms that can be found at the first, or lowest, trophic level.
What are producers?
Something all living things need and get from food.
What is energy?
Give an example of an ecosystem
ocean, desert, mountains, lake, etc..
This makes food webs and food chains different.
Answers may vary - Webs are more complex.
Why is photosynthesis helpful for animals?
They eat the plants and get the energy that the plants made
Imagine that pollution caused all the plants in an aquatic food chain to die. TRUE OR FALSE: This would affect the population of the largest fish.
What is true?
Organisms that eat plants or other organisms
What are omnivores?
The order that the types of organisms usually appear. (Put these in order: consumer, producer, consumer, decomposer)
What is producer, consumer, consumer, decomposer?
True or False: Plants are necessary for life on Earth.
What is True?
Gasses in the air and water molecules.
Organisms that eat organic matter
What are decomposers?
Apex predators, normally do not have predators themselves
What are tertiary consumers?
Why can certain organisms only live in specific ecosystems? Give an example
organisms that eat producers
What are primary consumers?
What are the ingredients that plants use for photosynthesis?
sunlight, carbon dioxide, water
"Purpose of ___": shows the predator/prey relationships between organisms
What is the purpose of a food chain? (also food web)