What are consumers?
Consumers are organisms that cannot produce its own food and must eat other plants and/or animals to get energy.
Habitat?
A place where an organism lives within an ecosystem.
What is a Herbivore
A consumer that only eats such as a grasshopper or bison.
What do the cycles do for our environment?
The cycles ensure that these resources are constantly recycled and available for use by all organisms.
What is the green like pigment called?
Chlorophyll
What are Decomposers?
An organism, that feeds on and breaks down dead plant or animal matter, making organic nutrients available to the ecosystem
Matter?
Matter is anything that has mass and takes up space
What is a consumer?
It is an animal that eats other animals.
What is a Carbon Cycle?
Carbon moves through organisms and between organisms, and the physical environment.
What do plants need to make photosynthesis
Carbon dioxide, water, and light
What are producers?
A producer is an organism that creates its own food or energy.
Ecosystem?
An ecosystem is a community of living organisms and their nonliving environment.
What is a Omnivore?
Eats both plants and animals
What is a Nitrogen cycle?
The moment of nitrogen between the environment and living things.
Where does Photosynthesis occur?
The chloroplast
What do they have in common?
Producers, consumers, and decomposers all interrelate in food chains and food webs and are dependent on one another for survival.
Law of Conservation of energy?
It states that energy can not be created or destroyed.
What are examples of a carnivore and herbivore?
Herbivore- Cows, ELK, buffalo
Carnivore- Tigers, lions, crocodiles
What is a water cycle?
The movement of water between the oceans, atmosphere, land, and living things
What does photosynthesis produce?
Sugar molecules and oxygen.
What are some examples?
Producers, Trees/plants.
Consumers, People and Animals
Decomposers, Fungi and Bacteria.
Photosynthesis?
Plants use energy from sunlight, carbon dioxide and water to make sugars.
What are two examples of Omnivores?
bears, birds, dogs, raccoons, and foxes.
What do all three of the cycles have in common?
They all involve the transfer of substances between living organisms and the environment.
What is PHOTOSYNTHESIS?
The process by which green plants and certain other organisms transform light energy into chemical energy.