levels of ecology
feeding of organisms
Groups of Vertebrates
kingdoms
characteristics of living things
100

Any unicellular or multicellular form exhibiting all of the characteristics of life. An individual.

organism

100

Any living organism that makes its own food by the use of sunlight, changing radiant energy into chemical energy.

autotrophs
100

wings

birds

100

bacteria

monera

100
acquire and process food

nutrition

200

The portion of earth where life exists.

Biosphere

200

Networks of feeding interactions involving multiple producers, herbivores, and consumers.

food web
200

scales

reptiles

200

mushroom

fungi

200

getting rid of waste

excretion

300

A group of organisms that are all part of the same species and live in the same area.

Population

300

a sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another

food chain
300

gills

fish
300

mango tree

plantae

300

SENSE a change/stimuli in the environment around you (food, danger...)

sensitivity

400

A group of two or more populations of organisms from different species inhabiting the same location at the same time.

community

400

a diagram that shows how energy flow decreases as you go up levels of consumers in an ecosystem (producers are always at the bottom, with the most energy and tertiary consumers are always at the top, with the least energy)

trophic pyramid

400

live birth

mammals
400

kangaroo

animalia
400

the breakdown of sugars to release energy

respiration

500

A community of living organisms that interact with each other and their environment.

Ecosystem

500

Organisms that break down dead organic material and wastes

decomposers

500

live on land and water

amphibians

500

amoeba

protista

500

list all 7

movement

reproduction

sensitivity

growth

respiration

excretion

nutrition

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