Definitions 1
An organism that primarily obtains food by killing and consuming of other organisms
What is a predator?
An animal that is caught and killed by another for food.
What is prey?
An animal that feeds on plants.
What is an herbivore?
An animal that eats food of both plant and animal origin.
What is an omnivore?
I am a scavenger.
What is a buzzard?
The order of events in an ecosystem, where one living organism eats another organism, and later that organism is consumed by another larger organism.
What is a food chain?
An organism that creates its own food or energy.
What is a producer?
Food sources of herbivores.
What are plants?
A living thing that breaks down dead plants, animals, or wastes.
What is a decomposer?
I am a producer.
What is algae? (Mrs. Ray taught this yesterday.)
An animal that feeds on flesh.
What is a carnivore?
All the food chains in a single ecosystem.
What is a food web?
All the living and nonliving things in an area and their interactions.
What is an ecosystem?
Scarcity of this can cause death in organisms.
What is water?
Must maintain this level during independent work.
What is level 0?
More than one organism in an ecosystem relies upon the same limited resources.
What is competition?
A surplus (or over-population) of one type of animal.
What is an imbalance in the ecosystem?
What is competition?
Humans can badly affect these two important needs of all organisms.
What is water and air?
Competition for light and soil nutrients happens among these organisms.
What are plants?
An organism that consumes mostly decaying biomass, such as rotting meat.
What is a scavenger?
From the following food chain which organism can be described as a producer? grass --> rabbit --> fox
What is grass? (It makes its own food through photosynthesis using energy from the sun.)
An organism that gets its energy by eating plants or animals.
What is a consumer?
These protect the rights of all learners.
What are rules?
Must do this to survive in an ecosystem.
What is competition between organisms?