Vocabulary
An organism that eats only meat.
What is a carnivore?
An animal that eats plants or other animals.
What is a consumer?
A model that shows how much energy flows through a food web.
What is a energy pyramid?
The ecological relationship where one organism hunts another.
What is predator and prey?
The arrows on a food web represent this.
What is the flow of energy?
An organism that makes its own food.
What is a producer?
An organism that breaks down dead or decaying plant or animal material.
What is a decomposer?
Consider this food chain: grass=> grasshopper=> mouse => snake Which organism is an herbivore?
What is the grasshopper?
The symbiotic relationship where both organisms benefit from an interaction.
What is mutualism?
All producers get their energy from here.
What is the Sun?
An organism that eats only plants.
What is an herbivore?
A network of food chains that have some links in common.
What is a food web?
Consider this food chain: blackberries=> bird=> cat Which organism is the carnivore?
What is the cat?
The symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits and the other is harmed.
What is parasitism?
The organism that contains the greater energy (Grass or Fox).
What is grass?
An organism that eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
The struggle between organisms for the same resource.
What is competition?
Consider this food chain: acorns=> squirrels=> hawks Which of these is the producer?
What are the acorns?
The symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
The consumer highest up on the food web.
What is the apex consumer?
A diagram that shows the flow of energy from one organism to another.
What is a food chain?
The result of competition in an ecosystem.
What are niches?
In a Mississippi swamp, alligators and great blue herons eat fish. Which type of organism is the great blue heron? A) decomposer B) carnivore C) herbivore D) producer
What is a carnivore?
The driving force between animals forming different niches in an ecosystem.
What is competition?
A wolf hunts, kills and eats other animals. A wolf is a ________.
What is a predator?