Ecosystems
Ecosystems are made up of these two factors.
What are abiotic and biotic factors?
Diversity is greater in this part of the world.
What is near the equator?
These are 3 things that can affect the diversity in an ecosystem.
What is climate, location, humans?
There are many types of consumers such as carnivores, omnivores and herbivores. This is another name for a consumer- which must eat other things to get its energy.
What are heterotrophs?
These are 4 examples of abiotic factors and 4 examples of biotic factors within an ecosystem.
What are
ABIOTIC-sunlight, rocks, soil, minerals, water, temperature....
BIOTIC-frogs, snakes, people, grass, plants, tigers, kangaroo...
This is the difference between a community and a population.
What is a community involves many different species and a population refers to only one species?
An organism’s role or function in its habitat.
What is its niche?
Organisms are dependent on each other within this. If this is broken then all organisms suffer.
What is a food chain?
People can harm or help an environment. Name 4 ways people harm an environment.
What are mining for coal, habitat destruction from building and clearing, produce a large amount of waste, pollution of the air, land or water?
Any living things that do not go through photosynthesis are referred to as this.
What are consumers?
Producers must have this gas in order to live.
What are air filled with Carbon Dioxide( they also need sunlight and water)?
Consumers get their energy, either directly or indirectly, from this.
What are producers-which get their energy from the sun?
This gas enters a plant through tiny holes in its leaves called this.
What are stomata?
The number of predators tends to rise when there is a rise in the number of this.
What is prey?
These organisms eat only producers such as mice, deer and rabbits.
What are herbivores or 1st level consumers?
In this ecosystem, the number and variety of plants and animals is larger than in any other kind of ecosystem. This is the word that refers to a great variety of living things.
What is the biodiversity? The rainforest is very biodiverse.
If an organism lives in many types of trees and eat many different kinds of foods, they would be considered to have this.
What is a broad niche?
This helps to change carbon dioxide, water and solar energy into sugar and oxygen for a plant.
What is chlorophyll?
In this cycle- carbon dioxide is needed from plants and oxygen is needed by consumers.
What is the carbon dioxide oxygen cycle?
In an energy pyramid, it shows how energy is passed from one organism to another up a food chain. At each level of the energy pyramid, this percent is needed for each organism to go through their own life processes.
What is 90% is used for life processes at each level?
FYI, 10% is available to be passed upward in the energy pyramid.
In this ecosystem, the number and variety of plants and animals is larger than in any other kind of ecosystem. This is the word that refers to a great variety of living things.
What is the biodiversity? The rainforest is very biodiverse.
We are considered nature’s recyclers. Bacteria, beetles or worms can fall into this category.
This is another name for a producer which is an organism that makes their own food such as plants and phytoplankton that live in oceans and other bodies of water.
What is autotroph?
This is the difference between a food chain and a food web.
A food web shows how food chain overlap. It shows what eats what, and the arrows in the web point in the direction that energy moves. A food chain shows how food energy is transferred from one organism to the next.
There are two types of organisms that clean up the environment such as sharks, polar bears, leopards, bacteria and mushrooms.
What are scavengers and decomposers?