Vocabulary
An environment that provides the things an organism's needs to live, grow, and reproduce.
What is a habitat?
What type of organisms are autotrophs?
What are Plants?
An organism that its only plants?
What is a herbivore.
The organism that a parasite lives in or on in a parasitism interaction.
What is a host?
What law states that energy can be converted from one form to another, but it cannot be created nor destroyed?
What is the 1st Law of Thermodynamics?
A group of similar organisms that live in same are at the same time.
What is a population?
The term given to an organism that eats dead and decaying organisms.
What is a decomposer?
These organisms typically only eat other organisms.
What is heterotrophs?
A group of different types of organisms that live in the same area at the same time is called>
What is a community?
Worms are considered to be what kind of consumer.
What are detrivores?
Bacteria in the soil converts nitrogen back into N2 gas into the atmosphere through what process?
What is a denitrification?
An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms.
What is a decomposer?
What are the 3 types of food pyramids?
What is an energy, mass, and numbers (population)?
The name given to organism that appear first after succession takes place.
What is a pioneer species?
Bears, pigs, and humans are considered what type of consumer.
What are omnivores?
An interaction in which one organism hunts and kills another organism for food.
What is predation?
What is the percentage of energy LOST as it moves from producer to primary consumer to secondary consumer?
What is 90%?
What do you call the organisms that an ecosystem reaches at the end of succession.
What is a climax community?
A bird stalks, kills, and eats another animal. What 2 ecological terms would describe this consumer.
What is a heterotroph and carnivore?
A group of organism that are physically similar and can mate wit each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce.
What is a species?