1. Plants obtain nutrition by . Plants are called because they can take inorganic carbon and turn it into organic carbon.
2. The ultimate source of energy that provides organisms with energy is the
3. Another name for a consumer is a
4. If a mouse eats grass, then the mouse gets eaten by a cat, the grass is a , the mouse is a and the cat is a
If a mouse eats grass, then the mouse is a/an . If the mouse is eaten by a cat then the cat is a/an . A mouse eating grass then being eaten by a cat is an example of a
5. Grass being eaten by mice, crickets, and snails, and snails being eaten by sparrows, mice being eaten by cats and hawks, sparrows being eaten by hawks, and grass, mice, crickets, snails, sparrows, cats, and hawks being decomposed after death by fungi and bacteria is an example of \( z \)
6. Food chains and food webs both describe the flow of through an ecosystem.
7. Oil, gas, and coal are all , which means that they are resources.
8. The two main factors that determine the type of terrestrial biome are and
9. The part of a lake or ocean where photosynthesis can occur is called the zone. This zone will be in relatively water.
10. The part of the shore that is exposed at low tide is called the zone.
11. When DDT was sprayed on the water to kill mosquitos, it became concentrated in organisms higher up the food chain. This is an example of is different from an ecosystem because it is a much larger scale, encompassing a much larger area.