Abiotic/Biotic
What is a biotic factor?
A living thing in an environment
What is the process through which an organism makes its own food?
Photosynthesis
What is a consumer?
An organism that eats other organisms for food.
What do all food chains start with?
The sun
Is a monkey considered an organism, a population, a community, or an ecosystem?
What is an abiotic factor?
a non-living thing in an environment
What is the chemical in plants that makes their leaves green?
Chlorophyll
What is an omnivore?
A consumer that eats both plants and animals.
Where does a decomposer fall in a food chain?
The last link.
What is a producer is this food chain?
sun ----> grass ----> rabbit -----> fox
grass
Is sunshine abiotic or biotic?
Abiotic
What is the part of the plant that holds the chlorophyll?
Chloroplast.
What consumer eats only plants?
Herbivores
Which way does the arrow point?
To the organism receiving the energy.
What travels through a food web?
Energy
Is a water lily abiotic or biotic?
Biotic
What 3 things do plants need to make food?
sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water
What is an animal called that eats a secondary consumer?
Tertiary Consumer
Predator
What 3 roles are demonstrated in a food web?
Producers, consumers, decomposers
Is a snail abiotic or biotic?
Biotic
What 2 things do plants give off?
Oxygen & glucose.
What is an animal that eats another tertiary consumer?
Apex predator
Is a turtle a predator or prey? Explain.
Both. A predator because it eats flies, and prey because it gets eaten by an alligator.
The producer population increases and the secondary consumer population decreases.