Vocabulary 1
Study of interactions of living organisms with one another and their environments
What is Ecology?
A group of a single species
What is popluation?
Population is one group of organisms and community is multiple populations
The start of any food web or chain
What is a producer? (Plants)
The parts of Earth where life exists
What is the biosphere?
A single number of one species
What is an organism?
How are autotrophs and heterotrophs different?
The amount of percentage of energy lost as it goes through the food chain
90%
Distinct biogeographical unit consisting of a biological community that has formed in response to a shared regional climate
What is biome?
All living factors of an ecosystem
What is biotic?
Are scavengers decomposers?
Names of the different levels in a food pyramid
A system that includes all living organisms and where they live
What is the Ecosystem?
All non-living things in an ecosystem
What is abiotic?
Difference between food chain and food web
Food chain is a single path of energy transfer, food web is all paths energy can be transferred
Define secondary consumer
Carnivore that eats herbivores
Groups of many species in one location
What is community?
Feeds off of dead or decaying organisms
What is Saprotroph?
Define "niche"
Niche is what an organisms job is in the community
List these organisms in proper order as a food chain:
Eagle, grain, snakes, mice
Grain, mice, snakes, eagles