Ecosystems
What is Photosynthesis?
The process in which a plant makes its own food.
What is the water cycle?
The Movement of water between the oceans, atmosphere, land, and living things is known as the water cycle.
What is a Habitat?
A place where an organism lives within an ecosystem.
What is energy?
The ability to do work and enables organisms to use matter in life process.
What is Celluar Resperation?
The process of breaking down food to produce ATP.
Where do producers get their energy?
From there surroundings.
What is the carbon cycle?
When carbon moves through organisms and the physical environment.
What is an ecosystem?
A community of living organisms and their nonliving environment.
Where does all energy come from?
All energy comes directly or indirectly from the sun's energy.
What do matter and energy have in common?
Matter and Energy are both conserved.
Where do consumers get there energy?
Consumers get their energy by eating other organisms.
What is the Nitrogen Cycle?
The movement of nitrogen between the environment and living things.
What is a Niche?
The position or role a species has in an ecosystem.
How does energy flow through an ecosystem?
Energy flows through an ecosystem by a cycle where producers get their energy from sunlight and make their own food and then the consumers eat those producers and when those consumers die the decomposers eat and break down their bodies and the energy keeps getting passed down and consumed from there.
What is ATP?
Adenosine Triphosphate
What is the niche of a decomposer?
Decomposes break down leftover organisms.
A cycle that describes the interactions between energy sources within the Earth's environment.
What is a Biome?
A region of Earth where the climate determines the types of plants and animals that live there.
can energy be destroyed?
The law of conservation states that both energy and mass cannot be created or restored.
How do puffins get energy?
(HINT: it lives in/by the ocean.)
Puffins get energy by eating herring and squid.
What would happen if all of the consumers disappeared from an ecosystem?
The population of decomposers would drop and there would be no food for them to consume.
What do all of the cycles have in common?
They all recycle essential elements though ecosystems.
What is a Eutrophication?
The process in which organic matter and nutrients slowly build up in a body of water.
How does energy affect plants and animals?
Energy affects plants and animals by giving them the ability to move around and be active. Without it plants wouldn't be able to have the energy to make their own food and animals wouldn't have the energy to move around.
Name a mammal that lays eggs.
There are two mammals that lays eggs. A platypus and a Echidna.