Vocabulary
An environment that provides the things an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce.
What is a habitat?
These organisms produce energy through the use of photosynthesis.
What are Plants/Producers?
This is the specific role that an organism plays in their habitat.
What is a niche?
This type of ecosystem helps to control floods and is a home for wildlife.
What is a Wetland?
This organism needs a host to live on or inside of and obtains most of their nutrients from the host.
What is a parasite?
The community of organisms that live in a particular area, along with their nonliving surroundings. This includes abiotic and biotic factors.
What is an ecosystem?
These organisms are herbivores and only eat producers, therefore they are called ______________ consumers.
What are a primary consumers?
An animal that hunts and eats a prey.
What is a predator?
The variety of different organisms living in a certain area.
What is biodiversity?
An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism.
What is prey?
A symbiotic relationship between two species in which both species benefit.
What is mutualism?
These organisms are typically at the top of the food chain. They are called ____________ consumers.
What are tertiary consumers?
Study of the interactions of living things and their environment.
What is ecology?
The main reason why biodiversity is important.
What is a balanced ecosystem?
A consumer that feeds both producers and other consumers.
What is an omnivore?
An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms.
What is a decomposer?
This is a way to show how energy in a food web is allocated. Usually there is a large base and a pointed top.
What is an ecological/energy pyramid?
Mutualism, Parasitism, and Commensalism are three examples of a certain type of relationship.
What is a symbiotic relationship?
Single-celled organisms that help decompose dead organisms.
What is bacteria?
An interaction in which one organism kills another for food.
What is predation?
A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy, and it continues to another organism eating that and continues on and on.
What is a food chain?
This is the percentage of energy that is transferred as it moves from one trophic level to the next.
What is 10%?
The ENTIRE food web would collapse if this one source of energy did not exist.
What is the Sun?
This was the tertiary consumer in the wetland food web.
What is a Blue Heron?
A symbiotic relationship in which one animal benefits and the other is not harmed or helped at all.
What is commensalism?