Ecological pyramid
What is a decomposer
Organisms such as bacteria and fungi that break down the remains of dead plants and animals without need for internal digestion
Whats the definition of a food chain
A single linear path of energy transfer through the trophic levels of an ecosystem
What does omnivores consume
Plants and animals
Is mutualism a relationship between organisms or species that is harmful to both
No its helpful to both
How do autotrophic organisms obtain energy
From an abiotic source
What is an organism that consumes producers
Primary consumer
Whats a food web
A complex of interconnected food chains showing the trophic interactions in an ecosystem
Do herbivores eat plants or meat
Meat
What is predation
An interaction between organisms in which one organism captures and consumes another organism
Whats a heterotroph
An organism that must consume other organisms for energy
What eats a primary consumer
Secondary consumer
An organism that consumes producers
Whats the ability of a system to do work
Energy
What is a predator
An organism that captures and consumes another organism for nourishment
whats an organisms position on the food chain
Trophic level
What is a tertiary consumer
An organism that eats the secondary consumer
What's a secondary consumer
An organism that eats the primary consumers
Whats an energy pyramid
A representation of an ecological community showing the total amount of energy contained within each trophic level
What's prey
An organism that is captured and consumed by another organism for nourishment
A representation of an ecological community showing the total amount of energy contained within each trophic level
What is A representation of the organisms in an ecosystem organized into separate trophic levels with producers at the bottom and top predators at the top
Ecological pyramid
Whats a carnivore
Animals that eat other animals
what is the symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits while the other is harmed
Parasitism
what is a condition that occurs when two or more organisms compete for the same resources within an ecological community
Competition
Apex predator