Organization/
Interactions
Interactions
A single organism alone.
What is an Individual?
When organisms start to grow on newly formed land
What is Primary succession?
The process of reusing materials
What is recycling?
An organism that creates energy using sunlight
What is a producer?
The arrows in a food web represent.
What is the movement of energy?
When two animals fight for the same resource.
What is competition?
When organisms grow on land that was previously populated
What is Secondary Succession?
The process of water evaporating then raining back down to earth
What is the water cycle?
An organism that eats other organisms to gain energy
What is a consumer?
The origin of all energy on earth.
What is the sun?
A spider trapping a fly in its web to consume.
What is predation?
The first species that grow during primary succession
What is a Pioneer species?
When organisms decay and turn into fossil fuels that can be used for machines
What is the carbon cycle?
An organism that eats only other consumers
What is a Carnivore?
A consumer that has eaten a herbivore
What is a secondary consumer?
The clownfish gains a safe home by living among the anemone's stinging tentacles, and in return, the clownfish helps protect the anemone from predators and keeps it clean
What is Mutualism?
The final stage of an ecosystem during succession
What is a Climax Ecosystem?
When water cools in the atmosphere then starts to rain down to earth
What is precipitation?
An organism that eats producers and consumers
What is an omnivore?
The amount of energy passed to the next trophic level
What is 10%?
A large geographical region of the same climate and organisms. Example a mass of forests that cover most of Ontario
What is a Biome?
Leading natural cause of secondary succession in a forest ecosystem
What are forest fires?
An organism that breaks down biotic waste
What are Detritivores/Decomposers
An organism that eats only biotic waste
What is a detrivour/decomposer?
The roll with the largest biotic mass in an energy pyramid.
What are producers?