Ecology 1
An organism that eats meat
What is a Carnivore
An organism that uses sunlight to create its food
What is a producer
any animal that feeds mainly on plants; plant-eater
What is a herbivore?
An organism that eats plants and animals
What is an Omnivore?
any living thing that feeds on both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
Many of the same species is a...
What is a population?
Plants use this process to turn light into chemical energy
What is photosynthesis?
What is an organism that only eats plants
what is a herbivore?
In a food web the mushroom and bacteria are....
What are decomposers?
Air, water, and the Sun are all ......
What is are abiotic factors?
Animals ____________ for food, water, territory, and mates.
What is an competition?
Any living thing that feeds on the waste of dead bodies of other living things.
What is a decomposer?
The study of interactions between organisms and their environment.
What is ecology?
This occurs when you move up trophic levels
What is the amount of available energy decreases
Food chains that is interconnected/overlaps in a particular ecosystem
What is a food web?
At the bottom of the food pyramid, what are those organisms called
What are producers
The living and nonliving things and the ways they interact in an environment (ex: redwood forest, swamp, Mojave Desert)
What is an ecosystem?
On the pyramid what is the organism that eats the producer called
What are primary consumers?
An area that is suitable for a particular organism to live in is called....
What is a habitat?
Living organisms in an ecosystem are called...
What is biotic?
An animal that eats plants or other animals and does not make its own food.
What is a consumer?
All the populations living in one place ?
What is Community?
Typically the first organism to inhabit an area.
What is a Pioneer Species?
The orderly process where one biological community replaces another on bare rock where no life has been before.
What is Primary Succession?
The orderly replacement of communities after a disturbance.
What is Secondary Succession?