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Has to eat or absorb other organisms for energy
Consumer/heterotroph
Primary source of all energy
Sun
Good, good relationship (Both benefit)
Mutualism
The highest level of an ecosystem. (big trees)
Climax community
All of the living things together in an environment
Communtiy
Relationship between 2 organisms where one hunts and the other is hunted
Predation or Predator-Prey
What organism eats the secondary consumer?
Tertiary Consumer
Good, meh relationship. One benefits and the other doesn't care.
Commensalism
Type of succession that happens after a volcano when there is no soil
Primary
A group of the same species living together
Population
When two organisms work together
Cooperation
Shows one line of organisms' energy transfer from producer-top consumer
Food chain
Good bad relationship
Parasitism
Organisms that are known as pioneer species that weather rocks to make soil for plants
Lichen or Moss
What organism gets the most energy from a producer?
Primary Consumer (herbivore)
Organisms that break down other organisms
Decomposers (Bacteria and Fungi)
Many food chains together
Food web
An adaptation that helps an organism copy a harmful organism.
Mimicry
Give one example of a phenomenon that can cause secondary succession to occur.
Forest fire, hurricane, farmers abandoning fields
When organisms struggle for the same resources (food,water,shelter)
Competition
Organisms who feed on decaying plant and animal remains
Scavenger (Detritivore)
If a tertiary consumer gets 50 cal at the top of the pyramid, how much did the producer start with?
50,000 cal
Eats both plants and animals
Omnivores
What happens to the other 90% of energy from what was consumed?
Lost as heat in metabolism. (Energy/digestion)
What has more biomass: shark or algae?
Algae