Ecosystem

List the organisms that can be found in your ecosystem.
Label Major organisms that live in your selected ecosystem: P for producers; C for consumers and D for decomposers.
Beetles - Decomposer
Cougar - Consumer
Coyote - Consumer
Creosote Bush - Producer
Desert Big Horn Sheep - Consumer
Desert Horned Lizard - Consumer
Desert Iguana - Consumer
Desert Rose - Producer
Desert Tortoise - Consumer
Earthworm - Decomposer
Flowering Yucca - Producer
Fly - Decomposer
Gila Monster - Consumer
Gopher Snake - Consumer
Hummingbird - Consumer
Jackrabbit - Consumer
Joshua Tree - Producer
Millipedes - Decomposer
Mule Deer - Consumer
Prickly Pear Cactus - Producer
Pronghorn - Consumer
Red-Tailed Hawk - Consumer
Sage Brush - Producer
Scorpion - Consumer
Tarantula - Consumer
Western Diamondback Rattlesnake - Consumer
Zebra Tailed Lizard - Consumer

Name types of consumers in your ecosystem.
Birds
Snakes
Spiders
Lizards
Mammals

List the food chains associated with your ecosystem.
Name of Animal
What it eats
What eats it
How it adapts to the ecosystem
Black Tailed Jackrabbit
Eats various shrubs, small trees and all grasses.
Is eaten by raptors and carnivorous mammals.
Very acute hearing to listen for predators, only active at dusk and night, only requires minimal amounts of free water, eat their food twice to get the maximum amount of moisture, long rangy legs for speed, eyes on the sides of head for all around vision.
Antelope Ground Squirrel
Eats a variety of seeds, fruits, green vegetation, athropods, insects and carrion.
Is eaten by coyotes, hawks, snakes, bobcats, and domestic dogs and cats.
Practices “heat dumping” by laying flat on it’s belly spread eagle in cool sand, able to resist hyperthermia and survive temperatures over 104 F, can go long periods of time without any free water by taking moisture from food and by minimizing water loss through behavioral and physiological adaptions.
Horned Lizard
Eats ants, grasshoppers, crickets, beetles, termites and spiders.
Is eaten by