Relationships
When two species interact to help each other out.
Cooperation
The organisms that are herbivores in an energy pyramid.
Primary Consumer
Organism that make their own food.
Producers.
Some birds eat ticks off organisms to help them.
Mutualism
An organism that lives on another for food.
Parasite
An organism that breaks down waste and dead organisms
Decomposer
The organisms that feed on the primary consumers.
Secondary Consumer
Organism that only eat plants.
Herbivores
Ticks bite organisms to eat their blood for food.
Parasitism
An organism that a parasite lives on.
Host
An organism that feeds on dead organisms and decays material.
Scavenger
The highest level of the energy pyramid.
Tertiary Consumer
Organisms that only eat animals.
Carnivores
Tree frogs use plants as protection.
Commensalism
The organism being hunted down.
Prey
A model that shows the feeding relationships between organisms in ecosystem
Food Chain
A diagram showing the amount of energy available at each feeding level in an ecosystem.
Energy Pyramid
Organisms that eat both plants and animals.
Omnivores
A close relationship between two species in which at least one benefits.
Symbiosis
The organism that is hunting others for food.
Predator
A model that shows the interconnected food chains in an ecosystem.
Food Web
An organism that eats other organisms. Also called a heterotroph.
Consumer
In the water, big fishes often eat the smaller ones. What is this relationship?
Predation
When organisms share limited resources there is..
Competition