Eco Systems Flashcards
Producer
Plants are producers because they make there own food and nutrients by using the sun for photosynthesis
Consumers
Animals are consumers because we eat other organisms
Herbivore
An animal that only eats plants
Carnivore
Only eats meat
Trophic level
Each plant or animal is put into a trophic level in a food chain and each trophic level energy is lost so as u get to the topof the food chain there isnt much of the species
Decomposer
A fungi or bacteria that feeds on the dead
Food chain
What animals are put into of what eats what
Food webb
Many food webs put together
Deforestation
When lots of trees are cut down at one time this cn lead to more co2 in the air
Eutrification
When over fertilisation gets into water ways and kills plants and living organisms in the water.
Fossil fuels
Coal and oil things that take years to become the things they actull are today
Green house gasses
When gases like co2 and methane are trapped in the earth
Global warming
The rising of temperature of the sea and the air
Acid rain
When gases such as surlfer get trapped in clouds and it rains acid
Species divirsity
Extinction of a species