Systems
System
What is: any collection of interacting parts that work together to make a whole or produce or preform a function?
Geosphere
What is: the Earth's rocks, minerals, and landforms?
Living parts of an ecosystem.
What is: plants, animals
What is: a producer?
Producer
What is: an organism that makes their own food.
Subsystem
What is: A system that is part of a larger system?
Atmosphere
What is: the gases surrounding Earth at a depth of up to several hundred kilometers.
Nonliving parts of an ecosystem.
What is: wind, temperature, moisture, clouds, etc.
T/F: The arrows on a food web can curve, and point in any direction.
Carnivore
What is: A consumer who only eats meat?
Complex System
What is: a system with many interacting parts?
Hydrosphere
What is: all of the water on Earth in the rivers, lakes, seas, groundwater, ocean, and atmosphere?
Predators
What is: what eats the organism?
The way plants get energy.
What is: photosynthesis?
Herbivore
Name a complex system.
(Examples) What is: the earth, a computer, a cell phone, etc?
What is: all of the plants, animals, and other living things in the water, on the land, and in the air?
Food chain
What is: the path that food takes from one organism to another organism?
The three essential things plants need for photosynthesis.
What are: sunlight, water, carbon dioxide?
Omnivore
What is: A consumer who eats plants and animals?
Name 2 of the major earth systems.
What is: Hydrosphere, Lithosphere/Geosphere, Atmosphere, or Biosphere?
A system within the biosphere.
What is: an ecosystem?
T/F: A food chain is more complex than a food web.
What is: False.
Food webs are a subsystem of this larger system.
What is: the ecosystem?
An example of a decomposer.
What is: bacteria or fungi?