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 photosynthis.
What are Plants or Producers?
The first species to return to an area after a disturbance.
What is a pioneer species?
A group of living organisms that interbreed with one another.
What is a species?
A type of organism interaction in which one species lives off and harms the other, the host.
What is parasitism?
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, therefore they are called ______________ consumers.
What is primary?
A pattern of ecological growth that occurs over time in an area that has soil and may have some vegetation and a few other organisms.
What is secondary succession?
The total number of individuals of a species found in a particular area that interact with one another.
What is a population?
A type of organism interaction in which an animal species eats any part of a plant species.
What is hebivory?
A relationship between two species in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
These organisms are typically at the top of the food chain. They are called ____________ consumers.
What is tertiary?
The final stage of ecological succession in which the organism remain relatively unchanged until a disturbance occurs.
What is climax community?
The total sum of all of the populations of living thing within an area that interact with one another.
What is a community?
An organism that must consume another organism to obtain energy
What is a heterotroph?
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 energy pyramid or trophic levels pyramid?
A pattern of ecological growth that occurs over time in an area without vegetation, other organisms, or soil (e.g. the colonization of bare rock following a retreating glacier)
What is primary succession?
All of the world's ecosystems exist here and it is the part of the Earth where life occurs.
What is the biosphere?
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. Usually written on one line linked to another line.
What is a food chain?
Organisms in the food web that eat both plants and animals.
What are omnivores?
A single organism of a particular species
What is an individual?
A type of organism interaction in which both species benefit.
What is mutualism?