Ecosystems

Question 1

Producer

Answer 1

(Autotroph) make their own food by photosynthesis

Question 2

Consumer

Answer 2

(heterotroph) Rely on the consumption/digestion of producers, consumers or both to survive

Question 3

Herbivores

Answer 3

Only eat plants. Important in an ecosystem as the maintain the growth of vegetation (prevent overgrowth). Many plants rely on herbivores to reproduce

Question 4

Carnivore

Answer 4

Eat meat/flesh. can be predators or scavengers. Predators help maintain prey sizes. Scavengers help prevent diseases from spreading

Question 5

Omnivore

Answer 5

Eats both plant and animals. Advantage of being able to survive a variety of environments

Question 6

Decomposers

Answer 6

Break down dead organisms into simpler materials, making nutrients available. Fungi, bacteria, invertebrae

Question 7

Food Chain

Answer 7

Linear chain that depicts organism and what they eat in order. Transfer of matter

Question 8

Food web

Answer 8

System of interlocking and independent food chains

Question 9

Organism

Answer 9

Animal, plant or single celled life form

Question 10

Population

Answer 10

Group of the same specie that live in a similar geographic area and breed together

Question 11

Community

Answer 11

Group of various species who interact in a common location. Various populations

Question 12

Ecosystems

Answer 12

Ecological community made up of biological. physical and chemical components that react with all the biotic and abiotic components in a specific area. Community but with abiotic and biotic factor

Question 13

Atmosphere

Answer 13

envelope of gases surrounding earth or another planet

Question 14

Lithosphere

Answer 14

outer ridge part of earth

Question 15

Hydrosphere

Answer 15

Water on the surface of earth