Ecology Review

An organism that can make its own food (autotroph)

• decomposer

• producer

• consumer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Breaks down and feeds on the remains of other dead organisms after the scavengers are done with it- to recycle the nutrients back into the soil

• decomposer

• consumer

• producer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Small consumers that are hunted and eaten by larger consumers and that must try to adapt by hiding or camouflaging themselves to survive

• producer

• prey

• predator

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Interacting food chains found in an ecosystem that show multiple paths of energy flow are called?

• food web

• food chain

• predator

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

An animal that hunts and eats other animals for energy. Primarily carnivores. The top of the food chain.

• prey

• predator

• decomposer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

These organisms CANNOT make their own food; they must eat something for energy (heterotroph)

• decomposer

• consumer

• producer

NON-living things found in an ecosystem that living things depend on and need to survive

• biotic

• abiotc

• habitat

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

LIVING things in an ecosystem, or once was living like plants, animals, bacteria and fungi

• biotic

• abiotic

• ecosystem

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Choose the producer. They must go through photosynthesis.

• rock

• tree

• cow

• bird

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Choose the decomposer.

• grass

• elephant

• bacteria

• bird

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3