Vocabulary
A model that shows feeding relationships in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
These are plant eaters.
What is a herivore?
What is a food chain?
When 2 or more organisms live together, and both get a benefit out of the living situation.
What is mutualism?
An organism that makes its own food using energy from the sun or other sources.
What is a producer?
These feed on both vegetation and animals.
What are omnivores?
Each organism in a food chain represents a level.
What is a trophic level?
When 2 organisms live in a relationship where one benefits which the other is neither harmed nor helped.
What is commensalism?
A system made up of all living organisms interacting with one another and their environment.
What is an ecosystem?
These feed on animals.
What is a carnivore?
A model that shows feeding relationships in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
When 2 organisms live in a relationship where one benefits and the other is harmed.
What is parasitism?
An organisms function in its habitat, including its relationship with other organisms.
What is a niche?
A thing that feeds on calcium-rich limestone.
What is a calcivore?
Algae-krill-cod-leopard seal-orca.
The producer makes its own food. Which is the producer?
What is a parasite?
An organism that obtains its food by feeding on other organisms or organic matter.
What is a consumer?
These break down the wastes or dead material from both producers and consumers.
What are decomposers?
algae-krill-cod-leopard seal-orca
The herbivore is the organism that feeds on the photosynthesizer. Which is the herbivore?
The herbivore is the krill.
The organism that is harmed in a parasitism symbiosis.
What is a host?