Levels of Organization
Any individual living thing
What is an Organism?
A relationship where one organism HUNTS other organisms to obtain energy
What is a Predation?
Anything that needs to eat to obtain energy
What is a Consumer?
An organism that makes its own energy
What is a Producer?
Scientific Term for something that is living
What is Biotic?
A group of organisms of the same type in one location
What is a Population?
A relationship where two different organisms "fight" over resources
What is Competition?
An organism that only eats plants
What is an Herbivore?
An organism that obtains energy by breaking down dead material and recycling it into the environment
What is a Decomposer?
All living things on Earth
What is a Biosphere?
All the living things in a specific location
What is a Community?
A relationship where at least one organism benefits and the other is harmed
What is Parasitism?
An organism that only eats other animals
What is a Carnivore?
What type of consumer would eat plants?
What is a Primary Consumer.
Any non-living thing (example: a rock)
What is Abiotic?
All the living and non-living things in one location
What is an Ecosystem?
A relationship where both organisms benefit
What is Mutualism?
An organism that eats plants AND animals
What is an Omnivore?
What type of consumer would eat animals?
What is a Secondary, Tertiarary or Quaternary Consumer.
A linear (straight) diagram that shows how energy is transfered from one organism to another
What is a Food Chain?
A bunch of ecosystems in the same area
What is a Biome?
A relationship where one organism benefits and the other doesn't care
What is Commensalism?
An organism that only eats dead organisms
What is a Scavenger?
When energy is transfered from one organism to another, how much is lost as heat?
What is 90%
What is the official scientific term for relationships between organisms where AT LEAST one organism BENEFITS?
What is Symbiosis.