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