Ecosystems: Food Chains, Food Webs, and Systems

What do secondary consumers use as a food source?

Which of the following is NOT considered a decomposer?

What is the significance of the arrows in the food chain.

A predator is an animal that ....

Bacteria, fungi, and worms are examples of ...

Which of the following is NOT a living factor in an ecosystem?

The pelican waits patiently before attacked the salmon. The salmon is the prey.

A paper clip is a complex system.

An animal that is hunted or killed by a predator is called a ....

An animal that eats another animals is called a _________.

Earth is a system.

Ecosystems are made of both living and non-living components.

A consumer that eats only plants are called ________________.

What are the two types of system?

What breaks down dead plant and animal material and reused them as nutrients?

Which system consists of the water on, under, and above the Earth's surface

What is the path of food energy from one organism to another called?

Plants or producers absorb _______________ to make their own food and to give off oxygen.

What happens when one part of the food chain starts to disappear?

A grasshopper eats a plant, a bird eats a grasshopper, a snake eats a bird, an owl eats a bird. This is an example of a

What is the primary source of energy for all living things?

The water filter is a subsystem in a fish tank.

A lion hunts and kills a zebra in the flatlands of Kenya. The lion is the prey.

What system consists of Earth's rocks, minerals, and landforms?

Which of the following is not a living factor in an ecosystem?

An engine is a subsystem of the railroad.

Which system makes up all the living and non-living parts of an ecosystem?

An animal that eat both plants and other animals is called a(n) _____________________

Plants are _____________ in our ecosystem.

A koala eats only plants. It is called a .....

What is the study of the relationships of organisms to one another & their physical surroundings?

A system is ONLY two interacting parts that work together to form a function.

The top consumer is also called the predator.

Which part of a food chain absorbs the Sun's energy directly?

A food web is a series of interconnected food chains made up of:

Which system is above the Earth's surface consisting of interacting gases?

A computer is a complex system.