Ecosystem Organization
Living things in ecosystems
What are biotic factors?
An organism that makes its own food
What is a producer?
Animals that eat only plants
What are herbivores?
An animal that hunts and eats other animals
What is a predator?
When animals are active at night, they are called this
What is nocturnal?
A scientist who studies ecosystems
What is an ecologist?
Nonliving things in an ecosystem
What are abiotic factors?
Living things that depend on producers
What are consumers?
An animal that eats mostly other animals or products that animals produce
What are carnivores?
Animals that predators hunt
What are prey?
When a population leaves one ecosystem and moves to another
What is migration?
A God-given behavior that an animal is born with
What is an instinct?
A single living member of an ecosystem
What is an individual?
Organisms that help break down dead things and waste
What are decomposers?
Animals that eat both plants and other animals
What are omnivores?
The transfer of energy and matter from one organism to another organism
Deep sleep that some animals experience during the winter
What is hibernation?
When two kinds of organisms interact with each other over a long period of time
What is symbiosis?
All the organisms of one kind that live in a particular ecosystem
What is a population?
Organisms that are too small to be seen without a microscope
What are microbes?
Consumers that help keep the ecosystem clean
What are scavengers?
Several food chains linked together
What are food webs?
Animals hibernate to conserve this during the winter
What is energy?
Symbiotic interaction in which both organisms are helped
What is mutualism?
Includes the populations of all the different kinds of organisms in a particular ecosystem
What is a community?
The process of plants making food
What is photosynthesis?
An organism's role, or job, in an ecosystem
What is a niche?
Shows how much energy flows from one organism to another organism
What is an energy pyramid?
What is to avoid weather that is too hot or too cold or to raise their young or when food supply is low?
The name of the job that God gave to people to manage the world
What is dominion?