Patterns of Interactions
A wolf eating a cow
What is a predator prey (predation)
An organism's particular role in an ecosystem, or how it makes its living
What is niche?
mushrooms
What is a decomposer
Animals that eat producers
What is a Primary Consumer
A pattern of interaction where one one animal benefits and the other is neither hurt or helped.
What is a commensalism
traits that improve an individual's ability to survive and reproduce
What is adaptations
grass
What is a producer
Organisms that make their own food
What is a Producers
A pattern of interaction where both organisms benefit
What is mutualism
A group of ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
What are biomes
wolves
What is a consumer
Organisms that eat primary consumers
What is a Secondary Consumers
A pattern of interaction where two organisms fight over the same resource
Competition
relationship in which two species live closely together
What is symbiosis?
bacteria
What is a decomposer
Organisms that eat secondary consumers
What is a Tertiary Consumers or 3rd Level Consumers
A pattern of interaction where one organism benefits and the other is harmed
What is a Parasitism
a system of interlocking and interdependent food chains
What is a food web?
the process by which cells use oxygen to produce energy from food
What is a cellular respiration?
vulture
What is a consumer
The higher you look up the pyramid, the _________ the energy level.
What is lower?