5.1- The roles of organisms in an ecosystem | 5.2- Food chain and food webs | 5.4- Energy Flow in an Ecosystem | 5.5- Matter Cycles | Mrs Brouwer |
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An organism that makes its own food from non-living organism
What is a producer?
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A producer
What do food chains always start out with?
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There is less energy available
In the pyramid of numbers, why does each level have far fewer numbers of organisms than the one below it?
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A sustem in which the amount of matter remains constant over time
What is a closed system?
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Green
What is Mrs Brouwers favourite colour?
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An otganism that only eats other animals
What is a carnivore?
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Food web
What is a model that shows hpw food chains in an ecosystem are connected?
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Not enough producers
The Sahara Desert has hardly any consumers living in it. Besides lack of water, what is another reason that consumers do not often live in a desert?
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Through recycling
Why does the amount of matter remain the same on the earth over long periods of time.
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Buffalo chicken
What is Mrs. Brouwers favourite food?
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What is
What is an example of a onnivore, carnivore, and herbivore?
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Food chain
What is a sequence that shows how energy is trnasferred from one organism to another in an ecosystem?
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No, the chicken only stores about 10% of the energy it gets from eating the grain. The rest of the energy is either used of released
If a chicken eats 8 bags of grain, and then you eat the chicken, do you have all the energy from the 8 bags of grain? WHY?
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water cycle, nutrient cycle, and carbon cycle
What are the 3 cycles that we talked about and looked at from this chaper?
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Soccer and volleyball
What are Mrs. Brouwers 2 favouite sports?
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energy from the sun, water from the soil, carbon dioxide from the air.
What do plants use in photosyntheses to make food and where do they get each ingredients.
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Answers may vary
What is an example of a producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer, and tertiary consumer in a food chain?
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It can be maintained and used indefinetely.
What does it mean that healthy ecosystems are SUSTAINABLE?
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Green
What colour are Mrs. Brouwers husbands eyes?
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A detrivore feed on a large parts of decaying plant and animal matter and waste. A decomposer comsimes and breaks down dead organims into simple substances.
What is the difference between detrivore and a decomposer?
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Started at the sun, plants like grain absorb the energy of the sun, then chicken ate the grain, and then we wat the chicken
If you ate a chicken fo energy, what it the path the energy took to get to you?
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warms the earth.
What role do greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide play that make them so important to Earth?
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September 7
What is Mrs. Brouwers birthday?
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