An organism that is able to produce its own food through photosynthesis.
What is a producer?
100
Organism that make its own food.
What is an autotroph?
100
Small parts of organic material.
What is detritus?
200
One single organism.
What is an individual?
200
Nonliving.
What is abiotic?
200
An organism that eats other organisms.
What is a consumer?
200
An organism that cannot make its own food and must eat other organisms.
What is a heterotroph?
200
An organism that eats detritus, breaking the organic material into smaller parts that a decomposer could use for food.
What is a detrivore?
300
All the individuals of one kind (one species) in a specified area at one time.
What is a population?
300
A sequence of organisms that eat one another in an ecosystem.
What is a food chain?
300
The first level of consumers.
What are primary consumers?
300
The process by which producers make energy-rich molecules (food) from water and carbon dioxide in the presence of light.
What is photosynthesis?
300
An organism that eats meat.
What is a carnivore?
400
All the interacting populations in a specified area.
What is a community?
400
All the feeding relationships in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
400
The second level of consumers.
What are secondary consumers?
400
Functional role in a feeding relationship through which energy flows.
What is trophic level?
400
An organism that eats only plants.
What is a herbivore?
500
A system of interacting organisms and nonliving factors in a specified area.
What is an ecosystem?
500
A kind of trophic-level diagram in the shape of a pyramid in which the largest layer at the base is the producers with the first-level, second-level, and third-level consumers in the layers above.
What is a food pyramid?
500
An organism that consumes parts of dead organisms and transfers all of the biomass into simple chemicals.