The specific place within an ecosystem that an organism lives.
What is a habitat?
These types organisms produce energy through the use of photosynthesis and are the base of the food chain.
What are producers or autotrophs ?
A physical or behavioral trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce
What are adaptations?
The non-living parts of an ecosystem
What is abiotic?
The organism that a parasite lives in or on in a parasitism interaction.
What is a host?
These organisms are herbivores, therefore they are called ______________ consumers.
What is primary?
The concept in which certain adaptations are best suited for the environment so they are more likely to survive and pass on their traits to their offspring.
What is natural selection?
What is an organisms?
An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism.
What is prey?
These organisms are consumers that eat only other consumers.
What are carnivores?
The fox is this type of consumer
What is carnivore?
A group of zebra is known as this.
What is a population?
A struggle between 2 organisms of the same OR different species to survive.
What is competition?
An organism that gets energy from breaking down dead organisms.
What is a decomposer?
The amount of energy that is moves from one level of an energy pyramid to another.
What is 10%?
This is the omnivore.
What is the bird?
What is a resource?
A relationship between 2 different organisms in which at least one benefits.
What is a symbiosis?
An organism that gets its energy from both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
The way the arrows would go if we drew in the sun in this food web.
What is an arrow from sun to the tree?
Natural disasters like a hurricane or tornado are example of this kind of limiting factor.
What are density INDEPENDENT?
The maximum population size that can be supported in a ecosystem based on the resources available is known as this.
What is the carrying capacity?