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These two words refer to any and all organisms that make their own food.
What are Producers?/What are autotrophs?
This type of consumer primarily eats producers.
What is a primary consumer?
All of the living organisms in an area, as well as all of the non-living portion of the environment they interact with.
What is an ecosystem?
Any close relationship between species.
What is symbiosis?
This is the ultimate energy source fueling nearly all food webs.
What is the sun?
These two words refer to any and all organisms that do not make their own food.
What are consumers?/What are heterotrophs
This type of consumer eats primarily secondary consumers.
What is a tertiary consumer?
This factor of the environment includes all the non-living parts of the ecosystem.
What is an abiotic factor?
This type of symbiotic relationship shows one organism benefiting from the relationship and the other being unaffected.
What is commensalism?
This organism is a pioneer species in ecological succession.
What is a lichen?
This molecule, represented by this equation, is the primary food source for producers. (C6H12O6)
What is glucose?
This organism is often missing from food webs, but plays an important role in the recycling of materials in the ecosystem.
What are decomposers?
This part of the ecosystem is where an organisms lives.
What is a habitat?
In this type of symbiotic relationship, both organisms directly benefit.
What is mutualism?
This organism is described as being at the "Top" of the food web, and holds this level of consumer.
What is the hawk, a quaternary(4th level) consumer?
This is the term that describes a consumer that only eats producers.
What is an herbivore?
The frog in this food web represents this type of consumer.
What is a secondary consumer?
This factor of the environment includes all living parts of the ecosystem.
What is a biotic factor?
In this type of symbiotic relationship, one organism benefits, and the other organism is harmed.
What is parasitism?
Animals which lay eggs tend to use decaying plant material to keep the eggs warm. This is the reason why.
What is heat produced via decomposition?
This is the term that describes consumers that eat both producers and consumers.
What is an omnivore?
These creatures would be directly affected by the loss of the mouse in the food web.
What is the fox, owl and hawk?
All of the organisms have this relationship, since they must share resources such as water, food and shelter.
What is competition?
The bird and the snake share this type of relationship.
What is predator/prey relationship?
During the process of decomposition, the mass of a pile of decaying plant matter decreases over time. It loses this mass to these two natural cycles in the ecosystem.
What are the nitrogen cycle and the carbon cycle?