Ecosystems

What would happen if there was a drought and the green plant producers could not grow like a typical year?

The whole ecosystem would be altered. All consumers would have to find alternative energy. If they couldn't find alternative energy, they'd starve.

True/False: A Carnivore eats only animals

True

True/False: A rabbit is a herbivore

True

True/False: A red worm is a decomposer

True

Three components needed for plants to make their own food

Water, CO2, Sun

Nonliving

not alive

Photosynthesis

process by which plants use light energy to convert water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and high-energy carbohydrates such as sugars and starches

Omnivore

An animal that eats both plants and animals

Decomposer

An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms

Producer

An organism that can make its own food.

Consumer

An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms

What Is a wild cat?

Consumer because it eats a rabbit and a mouse

What is a goat?

Consumer because it eats the green plant producer

Ecosystem

Everything that exists in an environment. interacting organisms and their physical environment.

True/False: A Herbivore eats both plants and animals

False: They eat only plants

True/False: An Omnivore eats both plants, animals and decomposers

False: They eat plants and animals

True/False: A bear is a carnivore

False: They're omnivores

Living

Having Life

Sun is the most important part of a food chain because...

It provides energy for the producers who feed the 1st consumers, who feed the 2nd consumers and so on. Take away the sun, you take away all life on earth.

Three results or results of photosynthesis

Oxygen, Water, Sugar

True/False: A Herbivore eats both plants and animals

False: It eats only plants

Herbivore

A consumer that eats only plants.

System

A group of interacting, interrelated, or interdependent elements or parts that function together as a whole to accomplish a goal.

What is a green plant?

A producer because the web shows no energy going to it, because it's implied it gets its energy from the sun

Carnivore

A consumer that eats only animals.

What is the source of all life?

sunlight

Biosphere

all life on Earth and all parts of the Earth in which life exists, including land, water, and the atmosphere.

Butterfly life cycle

egg, larva, pupa, adult