Science Flashcards
What is the process by which plants make their food?
Photosynthesis
What will best apply to fungi or bacteria?
Decomposers
How do animals get their food?
They eat other animals
What best explains the role of a decomposer?
They recycle dead matter back into the ecosystem
What does the Conservation of Mass state?
Matter can neither be created nor destroyed
What will increase the rate of decomposition?
Amount of sunlight
What could be a result of overhunting?
Increase amount of prey, extinction, a rise in population
What is another term for secondary consumers
Omnivores and carnivores
All the energy that is transferred through a food web comes from where?
Plants
How could you speed the rate of decomposition?
Adding water
A species that occurs in an environment naturally is called?
A Native Specie
What makes species invasive?
Moving into a new ecosystem and taking resources from natives.
