Vocabulary
What is the study of living organisms and their interaction with non-living factors is _____
Plants are an example of these
producers
both benefit
mutualism
The sun
two or more organisms of same or different species compete to use the same limited resources or basic needs
competition
A home for an organism
habitat
An animal that eats other animals
consumer
A mosquito and a human
parasitism
A producers that makes its own food
autotrophic producer
What is the relationship where one organism will actively hunt and consume another?
predator and prey
All of the same type of organism living in a certain area
population
an animal that eats both plants and animals
omnivore
A tree frog and a leaf
commensalism
An eagle is this type of consumer
carnivore
The interaction between two organisms
symbiosis
All of the nonliving objects in an environment
abiotic
These break down dead material
decomposers
a flower and a bee
mutualism
Energy used to make biomass remains available to the next level. What is the law?
The Ten Percent Law
What is an ecological model showing all possible feeding relationships at each trophic level.
food web
an organism that eats herbivores
carnivore
Feeds on dead or dying organisms
scavengers
A parasite feeds off the ______
host
How is 90% of the energy lost? (list 3)
heat, excretion, growth, movement, undigested matter, uneaten matter...etc.
Why do symbiotic relationships exist?
to help us all survive