Vocabulary
A species that can harm or destroy food webs.
What is an invasive species?
These organisms produce their own energy and food sources.
What are autotrophs?
A group of organisms competing for a resource.
What is competition?
Term given to organisms that only eat plants.
What is an herbivore?
These organisms are herbivores, therefore they are called ______________ consumers.
What is primary?
An organism that gets hunted/eaten is known as.
What is prey?
The term given to species who can consume both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
An organism that kills/hunts other organisms.
What is predator?
Mutualism falls under the ecological interaction known as.
What is symbiosis.
Consumers are also known as.
What are heterotrophs?
Non-living factors that influence an environmental system.
What is an abiotic factor?
An organism that breaks down organic materials and waste.
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 pyramid?
When only one organisms benefits from the relationship.
What is commensalism?
Producers are also known as what.
What are autotrophs?
An organized way to categorize organisms and what they eat?
What are trophic levels?
List all 6 of the ecological interactions.
What is competition, predation, symbiosis, mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism?
Organisms fall under 3 main diet categories list those three diet categories.
What are omnivores, carnivores, and omnivores?
A series of interactions in which energy flows in several different directions.
What is a food web?