Science Ecosystems

A decomposer?

• Eats dead plants or animals and breaks down to put nutrients in the soil

• Eats plants or other animals for food

• Makes its own food

• Machine that gathers trash

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Organisms that make up the living part of an ecosystem.

• abiotic

• biotic factors

• ecology

• ecosystems

All of the populations that live in one area together

• limiting factors

• populations

• community

• speed limit

A system of several overlapping food chains.

• energy pyramid

• food web

• ecosystem

• energy

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The process that plants, algae, and some bacteria use to take in carbon dioxide from the environment and use it to make food.

• Photosynthesis

• Decomposition

• Respiration

• Food web

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The arrows in a food chain or web represents what?

• They point to the organism that is being eaten.

• It shows how sunlight flows within an ecosystem.

• They show what direction the energy is flowing between organisms. 

• They represent how water is transferred within a habitat.

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The shrew provides energy for the _______?

• cricket

• grasshopper

• frog

• snake

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A producer?

• Eats other plants and animals

• Makes its own food

• Eats dead plants or animals

• Makes toys for kids

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A consumer?

• Makes its own food

• Eats dead plants and animals

• Eats plants and other animals for energy

• Buys toys for kids

What do herbivores eat?

• Meat

• Plants

• Both meat and plants

• They make their own food.