Producers & Consumers
An organism that eats meat
What is a Carnivore
An animal that eats plants or other animals and does not make its own food.
What is a consumer?
Environmental factors such as sunlight, wind, soil, rocks, and water in a given area.
What is are abiotic factors?
What is the main energy source of the food pyramid?
What is sun
Many individuals of the same species in one area is a
What is a population?
something that eats something else for food
What is a consumer? (heterotroph)
Any living thing that feeds on already broken down dead bodies of other living things (mostly fungus and bacteria)
What is a decomposer?
Plants use this process to turn light into chemical energy
What is photosynthesis?
Which trophic level is the largest?
producers
one individual life form of one species
What is an organism?
An organism that uses sunlight to create its food
What is a producer (autotroph)
An area that is suitable for a particular organism to live in is called....
What is a habitat?
Environmental factors such as the plants, animals, fungus, and protists in a given area.
What a biotic factors?
What do you call an animal with no natural predators at the top of the food web pyramid?
apex predators
A large, geographic area with similar climate, animals, and plant life.
What is an ecosystem?
any animal that feeds mainly on plants; plant-eater
What is a herbivore?
An organism that feeds on dead and decaying animals
What are scavengers?
On a trophic pyramid what is the organism that eats the producer
What are primary consumers?
What happens to the total number of organisms as you move up a trophic pyramid? Are there more, less, or the same amount?
decreases
different species living in a particular area
What is a community?
any living thing that feeds on both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
an organism that hunts, kills, and eats other organisms
What is a predator
Food chains that are interconnected/overlaps in a particular ecosystem
What is a food web?
As you travel up the trophic levels, what happens to the energy transferred from the producers?
It gets less and less
The living and nonliving things in an area and the ways they interact in an environment (ex: redwood forest, swamp, Mojave Desert)
What is an ecosystem?