Vocabulary
Non-living factors in a environment are called.
What is abiotic factors?
Organisms that consume only animals.
What are carnivores?
Two or more organisms of the same species.
What is a population?
How much energy moves from one (trophic) level to another. Rule of _______
Living factors of an environment are called.
What are biotic factors?
Something that only eats plants
What is a herbivore?
All of the living factors within an area.
What is a community?
Two or more organisms competing for the same resource.
What is competition?
These organisms produce energy through photosynthesis.
What are autotrophs/producers?
Organisms that consume both plants and animals.
What are omnivores?
A relationship between two species in which both organisms benefit.
What is mutualism?
A diagram showing multiple food chains and flow of energy paths. A much more accurate representation of energy flow in ecosystems.
What is a food web?
These organisms must consume other organisms for energy.
What are consumers/heterotrophs?
An organism that breaks down waste and dead organisms.
What is a decomposer?
A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is harmed.
What is parasitism?
These organisms are herbivores and only consumer producers, therefore they are called ______________ consumers.
What is primary?
Study of the interactions of living things and their environment.
What is ecology?
Sum of all ecosystems.
What is the biosphere?
These organisms are typically at the top of the food chain. They are called ____________ consumers.
What is tertiary/quaternary/apex ?