Parts of an Ecosystem
Relationships
Nutrition
Changes in an Ecosystem
Energy
100

Any organism that performs photosynthesis

What are green plants?

100

Animal that hunts for its food.

What is a Predator?

100

What do “Producers” produce?

What is Glucose (food)?

100

An organism’s role in the ecosystem

What is niche?

100

All of the energy that is present in an ecosystem comes from this source

What is the sun?

200

Any organism that must obtain food and eat to obtain nutrients

What is a Consumer?

200

Animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal.

What is Prey?

200

Primary consumers in a food chain must always eat what kind of food?

What is Green Plants?

200

The maximum number of individual species an ecosystem can support

What is carrying capacity?

200

Type of organism that can transform light energy into chemical energy

What are green plants?

300

Any organism that causes dead organism to decay, recycling nutrients back into the soil

What are Decomposers?

300

Type of symbiosis where one organism benefits by harming another organism

(tapeworms, lice, etc)

What is Parasitism?

300

Term used to describe animals that eat both plants and other animals

What is an Omnivore?

300

Term used to describe a stable ecosystem

What is sustainable ecosystem?

300

Percentage of energy lost at each step up on the food chain.

What is 90%?

400

Term meaning “Organic material” that is present in an ecosystem. This type of factor is either an organism (dead or alive), or some product of an organism (like feces or tree sap).

What is a Biotic Factor?

400

Type of symbiosis where both organisms benefit from their close interaction.

What is Mutualism?

400

The term used to describe animals that eat producers.

What are herbivores?

400

Term used to describe a foreign species that enters a new ecosystem and has little competition

What is invasive, alien or exotic species?

400

How energy is lost as it is transferred to the next level of the food chain.

What is Used by the organism to carry out life functions?

500

Three examples of Abiotic Factors that could be found in an ecosystem.

What are Water, Carbon Dioxide, Temperature, Oxygen, Terrain, etc?

500

The type of symbiosis where one organism benefits from a close interaction and the other organism is unaffected.

What is Commensalism?

500

Term used to describe a complicated pattern of overlapping food chains.

What is a food web?

500

Failure of a species to adapt to a changing ecosystem will result in the ___________ of that species

What is extinction?

500

These two types of organisms must be present in order for an ecosystem to be self-sustaining.

What are producers and decomposers?

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