Ecosystems
Living and nonliving things living together
What is an ecosystem?
The arrows in a food chain/food web show the following.
What is the transfer of erergy?
Organisms who live in the deepest part of the ocean need this to survive in extreme darkness.
What is light?
Anything that has mass or takes up space.
What is matter?
The smallest planet in the solar system.
What is Mercury?
If a population decreases, it will affect this.
What is a food chain/food web?
An organisms role in their ecosystem.
What is niche?
This stays the same throughout the experiment.
What is a constant?
The 3 states of Matter.
What is solid, liquid, and gas?
The largest planet in the Solar System.
What is Jupiter?
All of the energy in an ecosystem comes from here.
What is the sun?
Organisms at the bottom of a food chain/food web are called this.
What is a producer?
This happens when plants lose their leaves.
What is they can not make food?
When a substance completely dissolves into another.
What is a solution?
This planet/star is in the center of the Solar System.
What is the Sun?
When two organisms depend on the same food, they must do this to survive.
What is compete?
Bacteria, fungi, vultures, and worms are examples of this category of organisms.
What is a decomposer?
Animals breathe this out.
What is carbon dioxide?
When matter changes from one state to the next, the mass does this.
What is stays the same?
The Earth revolves around the Sun, and this floating rock revolves around the Earth.
This helps meet the following needs of organisms: food, water, shelter, and space.
What is a habitat?
Scientist use this to classify organisms using their physical features.
What is a dichotomous key?
This is changed by the experimenter.
What is the independent variable?
Water changing to gas.
What is evaporation?
Earth does this around their axis every 24 hours.
What is rotate?