A secondary consumer is a carnivore (that eat primary consumers; the herbivores).
What is a food chain and a food web?
A foos chain is the relationship between a plant, the herbivore that eats it and the carnivore that eats it. A food web is a "group" of food chains.
During photosynthesis, what do plants breathe out?
Oxygen.
What is a producer in a food web?
Producers are living things that produce their own food (with energy from the sun and nutrients from the soil). Example: plants.
When an animal's fur is the same colour as the environment this is called what?
Camouflage
What is a biome?
A large ecosystem made up of smaller ecosystems.
What is a primary consumer?
A primary consumer is a hervibore animal (that eats producers).
What is the biosphere?
All living things on Earth including those in the atmosphere, hydrosphere and geosphere. *The largest ecosystem, because it contains all the different biomes.
Give an example of a decomposer
Worms are decomposers
What is a tertiary consumer?
A tertiary consumer is a carnivore that eats secondary consumers (other carnivores).
What is a habitat?
The place where a community lives. A habitat can be a forest, water in a pond, a mountain, the rocks or soil.
What is a community?
All the populations that live in a habitat. For example: a community can be made up of a population of foxes, a population of eagles, a population of trees...
During photosynthesis, what do plants breathe in?
Carbon dioxide
What is the hydrosphere?
All water on Earth including saltwater and freshwater
What is the atmosphere?
Layer of gases that surrounds the Earth.
Where does photosynthesis happen?
In the chloroplasts of leaf cells.
What is a population?
All the individuals of the same animal or plant species living in a place. A fox is an individual; a group of foxes that live in the same are is a population.
Give an example of parasitism
A mosquito sucks blood from a dog.
Give an example of mutualism
A bee pollinates a flower
What is a decomposer?
A decomposer is a living thing that decompose other elements of the food web when they die. This way, the nutrients go back into the soil.
What forms an ecosystem?
The climate, living things and the place they live.
Which two factors are very important for climate?
Precipitation and temperature.
What is at the top of the food web?
The sun because it allows producers to make food
What is the difference between a lake and a river?
Lakes are still fresh water and rivers are moving fresh water.
What are the three layers of the Geosphere?
Nucleus/Core, Mantle, Crust
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