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?
A producer
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 3 things do plants need to make food?
sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water
What is an omnivore?
A consumer that eats both plants and animals.
Where does a decomposer fall in a food chain?
At the very end. It is not typically shown on a food chain.
What is a producer is this food chain?
sun ----> grass ----> rabbit -----> fox
grass
Is sunshine abiotic or biotic?
Abiotic
What 2 things do plants give off?
Oxygen & glucose.
What consumer eats only plants?
Herbivores
STEAL POINTS! 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
DOUBLE POINTS! Name ONE organism that is not a plant but can photosynthesize.
Algae, phytoplankton, cyanobacteria
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
The interaction between an eagle and a rabbit is...
Biotic & biotic
What makes the leaves of a plant green?
Chlorophyll in chloroplasts
What is an animal that eats another tertiary consumer?
Apex predator
Is a frog a predator or prey? Explain.
Both. A predator because it eats flies, and prey because it gets eaten by snakes.
The producer population increases and the secondary consumer population decreases.