PLANTS
Plants use the Sun to...
power the photosythesis process. or "make their own food"
All energy that animals use was once energy that came from...
The Sun (or plants)
The collection of all living and non-living things in a place is called a(n)...
Ecosystem
A creature that takes dead things and turns it back into nutrients is called a
When a creature changes itself or its habits to better suit the place it lives in, we call this....
Adaptation
What three things do plants need to survive?
Water, Sunlight, Air (Carbon Dioxide / CO2)
Grass ___?____ Bison
---> Matter and Energy
If you have a control in an experiment, what variables do you change?
None of them
When a creature dies, does its body still have matter, energy, neither or both?
Both (Energy stored)
Creatures that live in herds often do this when the temperature gets cold.
Huddle together to keep warm.
These two places are where Plants get their matter from
Air (mostly) and Water [Soil for nutrients]
<----
Matter and Energy
When Wolves, a Keystone species, were removed from Yellowstone, how did it change Yellowstone?
Willow > Elk > Wolf
The Elks increased, which decreased the Willows
OR Yellowstone was thrown out of balance.
If an apple is left on a table in a sealed, but not air-tight box, What would cause the apple to rot?
Bacteria.
POLAR BEAR
Plants and animals add this to themselves when they grow
Matter
The Sun __?__ Grass
---> Energy only.
In the following Food Chain
Phytoplankton > Krill > Squid > Seal
What would happen if the Seals decreased in number?
The squids would increase.
If Decomposers did not return nutrients back to the soil, what level of the energy pyramid would suffer first?
Producers
If a creature has adapted in such a way that it can only ever be a 1st consumer, what type of consumer is that creature?
An Herbivore.
Plants store energy in:
The whole plant
Gray Wolf __?__ Worms
--->
Matter and Energy (Decomposition)
Phytoplankton are the Producer in the ocean Food Web. What would happen to the food web if ocean temperatures rose and Phytoplankton declined?
All other creatures would decline as well.
A Wolf would not typically eat from a hawk or a rotting carcass, but one could probably find an example of one. We would consider then a wolf, like many other predators, to be THIS, eating something that would otherwise be a hard catch or outside of the wolf's typical diet.
an OPPURTUNISTIC EATER.
The Food Chain or Energy Pyramid model has a flaw. if a 1st consumer is removed, the model shows the consumers above it have nothing to eat, and therefore should die. But in the real world we typically do not see the 2nd and 3rd consumer also being entirely removed. This is why the creatures can still survive.
They are DIVERSE eaters, that eat more than one thing, and therefore still have something else left to eat.