Chapter 16 Sci Flashcards
What is an ecosystem?
A community of plants, animals and their habitat
What is a habitat?
Where a plant/animal lives
What is a community?
A group of plants and animals that live together
What factors affect where plants and animals live?
Light intensity
Temperature of air
Aspect
Wind speed
Which instrument would you use to measure each factor?
Photometer
Thermometers
Inclinometer
Anemometers
What can you use to capture insects?
Poorer
Beating tray
Pitfall trap
Sweep net
How to identify animals?
Use a book with a key
A square frame used to sample types of plants growing in an area
Quadrant
A sequence of organisms that eat each other is called a?
Food chain
Organisms that produce their own food are called?
Producers
Organisms that consume food by killing animals are called?
Consumers
Animals that eat dead decomposing things?
Decomposers
What is a line transect?
A piece of rope where marks are at one meter intervals
What is photosynthesis?
The way that plants make their own food using sunlight and water
Desperation converts ———into other forms
Carbon dioxide
