Got Fossils?
Found in solid form
coal
Give an example of how humans hurt the environment
By changing it to much such as dams, pesticides and development
Green plants make their own food and because of this they are called?
Producers
Process when dead plant and animal matter is broken down
decomposition
What is the most important relationship in an ecosystem?
Competition
Fossil fuel found in liquid form
petroleum oil
The area an organism lives in and how it obtains food
Niche
Why do many living things depend on plants?
Because they can't make their own food and they need a source of energy to survive so they eat plants
vulture is an example of this because it gets its food from dead plants and animal matter
Scavenger
In ecosystem, a group made up of one kind of living thing is called a? What are these groups called?
Population and community
Which two fossil fuel's come from each and oceans were plants and animals have died
Petroleum oil and natural gas
another name for habitat
Biome
Name a non-green plant like organism that is dependent on the green plants for energy
Mushrooms can grow on trees and they break down the matter of the tree to get food for energy
What is always at the end of a food chain or food web?
Decomposer
What are the first and second links of food chains called? What is the last link of a food chain called?
Plants, first order consumers, decomposers
What are the problems associated with fossil fuels?
They can pollute and they are non-renewable
What do we call the leaves on a coniferous tree?
Needles
What is the plans energy source and what is the process by which it makes its own food?
Sun and photosynthesis
Further explains the interdependence of all living things
Food web
Animals that eat other animals or a combination of animals and plants are called?
Second order consumers
Name five other sources of energy that don't come from fossil fuels
wind, water, solar, geothermal, energy from garbage
Name two insects that like to live in the grasslands and what likes to eat them
Grasshoppers and crickets… Meadowlarks love to eat them
What is produced by photosynthesis?
Glucose (sugar) and oxygen (02)
Why are predator still depend on plants?
they consume animals which consume plants somewhere in the food chain
Give two reasons why humans are dependent on producers
They are important for the food chain and they produce oxygen.