Food Web/Food Chains 1
A ____ makes it's own energy and begins the food chain
What is a Producer
This is the source of all energy on earth.
A relationship between two organisms that benefit both organisms is what?
Mutualism
What are plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria?
Biotic factors
What is an example of an Abiotic factor in the desert?
What is the sun
Bacteria is an example of what?
A decomposer
What are producers?
Organisms that make their own food.
A place where an organism lives and hunts for food
A habitat.
What do living things need to survive?
Abiotic factors (air, water, minerals, soil and sun)
What is a decomposer?
An organism that breaks down waste and dead stuff
What is a Secondary Consumer
What would happen to the mouse in this food chain?
Grass--->Mouse---->Snake
The mouse population would increase.
A relationship where one organism benefits and other is harmed.
Parasitism
When an animal hunts another animal this is called
A Predator
What do you call an organism that is being hunted?
Prey
What order is the flow of energy in an Ecosystem?
Producer, Consumer, Decomposer
What are Consumers?
An organism that eats other animals and plants.
What do you call an organism that struggles for resources?
Competition
What is members of the same species in the same geographic area. (All the mountain lions in the Black Hills).
What is a Population
What does a rabbit, grasshopper and pandas have in common?
They are all herbivores
A Food Web
A diagram that shows the transfer of energy is called...
Food Chain
What is a relationship when one organism
Commensalism
What is the term used to describe ALL of the populations of ALL the species of living organisms within a particular habitat?
What is a Community
What is an organism that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms.
Scavengers