Communities
What factors would you see in a community (biotic or abiotic)?
biotic
What are examples of abitotic factors?
nonliving organisms
ex. sunlight and water
Example: If snakes, rocks, water, and grass were made out of paper, what would the items together create? (community, ecosystem, or network)
an ecosystem
What is an example of a decomposer?
flies
What two organisms do NOT consume other organisms?
grass and trees
What would a desert community NOT have?
sand or rocks
What are the biotic factors in this list?
-air bubbles
-fish
-grass
-rocks
-water
-worms
-fish
-grass
-worms
What is the first link in a food chain?
prodcuer
What role does a Java moss play in an ecosystem (producer, consumer, or decomposer)?
producer
What model shows how matter and energy flow from one organism to another?
food chain
What do communities have?
communities have living organisms
What are the abiotic factors in this list?
-air bubbles
-fish
-grass
-rocks
-water
-worms
-air bubbles
-rocks
-water
What do biotic and abiotic factors together create?
an ecosystem
What happens when fish are removed from the aquarium?
Fish are consumers, so if the fish are removed, then plants would grow too large
In drawing a food chain. What would be the order of the consumer at the top of the food chain as "1" and the producer at the bottom as "5"?
-eagle
-snake
-grass
-grasshopper
-frog
1. eagle
2. snake
3.frog
4.grasshopper
5.grass