Living Systems
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- Decomposers
- They feed on dead producers, consumers, and wastes.
- Green
- What color are MOST producers?
- Producers
- They make food
- Smog
- Wastes gases from burning fossil fuels combine with moisture in the air. It is unsafe to breathe.
- Consumers
- The eat producers or other consumbers
- Taiga
- very cold winters, cool summers
- Sunlight
- a resource that effect ecosystems,
- Diseases
- This can harm an ecosystem
- Air Pollution
- This can come from forest fires, volcanoes, cars, and factories
- Freshwater lakes and ponds
- Many habitats are at the shore, on the surface water, and under that water
- Chloroplasts
- Make plants green
- Overpopulation
- This happens when an ecosystem has too many of at least one kind of living thing. It reduces the resources for everyone
- Desert
- hot days all year. Little rain. Plants AND animals adapted to conserve water
- Carnivores
- Consumers that eat only meat
- Open sea deeper down
- Ecosystems change as the amount of light decreases with depth
- Omnivores
- Consumers that eat both plants and meats
- Saltwater shores
- Many organisms live where the water level changed for high to low tide
- Grasslands
- Cold winters, hot summers. Rich Soil
- Mild Forest Lands
- Mild winters and summers. Plenty of rain or snow. Trees lose leaves in winters
- Open sea surface
- This area gets plenty of light. it is rich in nutrients and home to many populations.
- Fire
- This can DESTROY an ecosystem
- Herbivores
- Consumers that eat only plants
- Water pollution
- This happens when wastes from home or factories are dumped into rivers, lakes, or oceands.
- ecosystem
- all the living and nonliving things in an area.
- EPA
- Enviromental Protection Agency
- DROUGHT
- This is a long period of time with little or no precipitation
- Tundra
- Long, dark, cold winters. Few trees, Frozen Ground.
- Freshwater Rivers
- Many Habitats are along the shore and river bottom
- Tropical Rain Forest
- hot, rainy all year. Poor soil
- Mild Forest Land
- What ecosystem do we live in?