Definitions/Terms
Study of interactions that take place between organisms and their environment.
What is ecology?
Way to show transfer of energy between differant levels of organisms, starts from a wide base and ends in a pointed or sharp top.
An organism that sustains itself by taking from other living organisms.
What is a parasite?
An individual living thing that is made of cells, uses energy, reproduces, responds, grows, and develops.
What is a organism?
An organism that is killed and consumed by another organism.
What is prey?
The place where an organism lives out its life.
What is a habitat?
These organisms produce energy through photosynthesis and are at the bottom of the food web.
What are producers?
A relationship between two organisms in close physical proximity.
What is a symbiotic relationship?
A group of organisms all of the same species that live and breed together all in the same area.
What is a population?
What are decomposers?
The non-living parts of an organism's environment.
What is abiotic factors?
These organisms are herbivores and acquire their energy through consuming the producers.
What are primary consumers.
What is mutualism?
Made of interacting species in a certain time and certain area.
What is a community?
An interaction between species where one organisms is killed by other and consumed for their energy.
What is predation?
What is biotic factors?
These organisms are typically at the top of the food web and acquire their energy by consuming other consumers.
What are tertiary consumers?
A symbiotic relationship in which one species benefits and the other is harmed.
What is parasitism?
Made up of interacting populations in a biological community and the community's abiotic factors.
What is a ecosystem?
An organism that gets energy by consuming organisms that have already been killed by another organism.
What is a scavenger?
All the strategies and adaptations a species uses in its environment.
What is a niche?
The percentage of energy lost between the transfer of energy between differant levels of the food web.
What is 90%?
A symbiotic relationship in which one species benefits and one species is neither harmed nor benefitted.
What is commensalism?
The part of the Earth that supports living things, forms high in the atmosphere to the bottom of the oceans.
What is biosphere?
A term for a predator at the top of the food web that have no predators in its natural ecosystem.
What is a apex predator?