Ecosystems Flashcards
What are the living things in an ecosystem?
Animals plants, bacteria
What are the nonliving things in an ecosystem
Water sunlight mineral soil air
What is a producer
A living organism that makes its own food using photosynthesis
What is a consumer
An animal that eats other animals or plants to survive
What is a decomposer?
A living organism that breaks down dead plants and animals, and returns nutrition to the soil
What is three examples of a producer
Trees grass flowers
What are three examples of consumers
Human fish snakes
What are three examples of decomposers
Where is bacteria snails
What is a food chain?
It shows the path of food energy in an ecosystem
What is a food web?
A food chain that overlaps
What is a marine ecosystem
It is the largest ecosystem. Morrow is a large variety of animals has plans like seaweed, algae, and plankton and animals like squid, sharks and blue whales.
What is a freshwater ecosystem?
Things like ponds, rivers, lakes, and streams, and wetlands, have less than one percent of salt they prevent flooding, and I have plans like a milkweed cat tails in water, lilies live animals like alligators, frogs, and crocodiles
What is the tropical rainforest ecosystem?
It is a hot, damp forest with rich soil and tons of rain. They have plants like ferns mosses, picture plants and animals like monkeys, snakes, parrots
What is the temperature forest ecosystem
It has half as much rain is the rain forest at least two seasons, and it has animals like clovers, mosses, maple trees, and plants like bears wolves and squirrels
What is the desert ecosystem?
It has very little rain and not much nutrition for plants to grow in the soil. It has plans like cactuses desert sage in some animals like camels, scorpions, foxes vultures in lizards.
