Energy for animals and plants
organisms that produce using their own food using sunlight,carbon dioxide and water.
What is Autotrophs
Animals that feed only on plants. All organisms under primary consumers are classified as herbivores
What are Primary Consumers
Animals that are often hunted and killed by predators for food
what is prey
Non living components of an ecosystem like the sun, water and temperature
What is Abiotic Factors
non-living chemical and physical parts of the environment that affect living organisms and the functioning of ecosystems.
What is Abiotic components
plants or animals that eat other animals or plants
what are Carnivores
Animals that feed on primary consumers
What are Secondary Consumers
Predators
Living organisms of an ecosystem.
what are biotic factors
any behavior that contributes directly or indirectly to an individual's reproductive success, and is thus subject to the forces of natural selection
what is adaptive behavior
animals that feed on plants for their energy
What are Herbivore
Animals that feed on secondary consumers
What are Tertiary Consumers
A series of food chains form a food web
what is Food Web
A community of plants and animals and occupying a particular region
what is biome
sub-field within ecology that considers the application of the science of ecology to real-world (usually management) questions
what is Applied ecology
animals that eat both plants and animals
What are Omnivores
Animals that feed on tertiary consumers they are apex predators
what are Quaternary Consumers
Shows the flow of energy in an ecosystem.It starts with producer and ends with a consumer
What is Food Chain
Community of biotic and abiotic factors in an environment.
ecology owes much to demography and actuarial life tables.
what is Population ecology
organisms that acquire energy by eating other plants or animals.
What is Heterotrophs
A group of organisms that break down dead plants and animals
what are Decomposers
A biological made of living organisms and non- Living components such as air,water and mineral soil
what is Ecosystem
Shows the flow of energy and the feeding relationships between groups of organisms
phenomenon in biology characterized by a correlation between population size or density and the mean individual fitness (often measured as per capita population growth rate) of a population or species
what is Allee effect