Ecosystems

4. What process leads to the release of nutrients stored in rocks in an ecosystem?
5. What term is used to classify non-living components of an ecosystem?
8. What is a small-scale ecosystem also known as?
10. A Carnivore is also known as what?
11. What is a large-scale ecosystem, such as the tropical rainforest, known as?
14. What are the connections between different organisms (plants and animals) that rely on one another as their source of food, known as?
15. Identify a store for water and nutrients that plants can use.
16. What is the main input into an ecosystem?
17. What is a community of plants and animals that interact with each other and their physical environment?

1. What is a complex hierarchy of plants and animals that rely on each other for food?
2. Identify the set of processes whereby organisms extract minerals necessary for growth from soil or water, before passing them on through the food chain - and ultimately back to the soil and water.
3. Identify the process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize nutrients from carbon dioxide and water.
6. What term is used to classify living components of an ecosystem?
7. What other term is used to describe a herbivore, that only eats plant matter?
9. What is an organism such as a bacterium or fungus, that breaks down dead tissue, which is then recycled to the environment, known as?
12. What is an organism or plant that can absorb energy from the sun through photosynthesis?
13. Soil, biomass, and which other nutrient store is found in an ecosystem?