Got Biotics and Abiotics?
Organisms are not separated from their environment
Do organisms live in isolation?
The interactions between biotic factors and abiotic factors
What is ecology?
Diagrams that represent feeding relationships of different species
What are Food Chains and Food Webs?
Each step of the food chain in the energy pyramid
What is trophic level?
These things absorb carbon dioxide and need water to survive
What are plants?
Parts of the environment that are not living
What is abiotic?
A group of organisms belonging to the same species, that live in the same area, and interact with one another
What is a population?
Organisms that cannot make their own food and must get energy from other living organisms
What are consumers?
Autotrophs
What are producers?
One must eat, to get energy
How to survive?
Parts of the environment that are living
What is biotic?
All of the p[opulations of different species that live in the same area and interact with one another
What is a community?
Organisms that get nutrients and energy by breaking down the remains of dead organisms or animal waste
What are decomposers?
A scientific name for organisms that cannot produce their own food
What are heterotrophs?
All organisms in the reading
What is have the ability to grow and reproduce?
Includes the living organisms in an area and the non-living aspects of their environments and their interactions
What is an ecosysytem?
The role an organism plays in its ecosystem
What is a niche?
A single pathway by which energy and matter flow through an ecosystem
What is a food chain?
There is a loss of energy
What happens every time energy is transferred from one organism to another?
Warthogs chased by these cats
What are cheetahs?
Rocks, water, air
What are examples of abiotic factors in an environment?
The highest level of ecological organization, it is part of the Earth
What is the Biosphere?
Multiple pathways through which energy and matter flow through an ecosysytem
What is a food web?
10% of total energy
What is the amount of energy that is absorbed into an organism at the next trophic level?
This animal has antlers and spots in the picture
What is a deer?