Places on a Food Web
This type of organism makes energy from non living things
Producer
Another name for a primary consumer
herbivore
Describe the difference between biotic and abiotic factors
abiotic is not alive, biotic is
What kind of relationship involves one organism hunting and eating another
Predator Prey
Describe one thing you can do to create biodiversity
Answer varies
This type of organisms gets energy by breaking down dead things
decomposer
Name for a consumer that eats meat
Carnivore
The total number of organisms of one species is called what?
Population
What kind of relationship involves two organisms helping each other?
Mutually beneficial relationship
Describe one way that humans hurt biodiversity
answers vary
This type of organism gets energy from from eating producers
Primary consumer
Name for a consumer that eats the remains of dead organisms
scaveneger
What is the term for a living thing?
Organism
Give a definition for competition
When two or more organisms both try get a limited resource
What is the definition of biodiversity
Amount of different species in an area
This type of organism gets energy by eating animals that also eat animals
Tertiary consumer
Name for an organism that eats plants and animals
OMNIVORE
Describe what a community is
Total of all living things in an area
What will happen when a native species enters an ecosystem?
They will increase competition and introduce new predator prey relaitonships
What is it called when we connect ecosystems by making a bridge or tunnel across a road?
Wildlife corridor
This type of organism gets energy from eating animals that eat plants
Secondary consumer
What does heterotroph mean?
You eat other organisms for energy, consumer
What is the difference between an ecosystem and a community?
An ecosystem is all of the living and nonliving things in an area, a community is just the living things.
What does the arrow on a food web show?
Which direction energy / matter moves
How does biodiversity help an ecosystem survive/recover from a natural disaster like a flood or fire?
The more species you have, the more likely it is some will survive