Ecosystem 100
What is a Food chain?
It is the path of energy as it flows from one living thing to the next.
Energy Pyramid
Shows the amount of energy left for consumers as the energy moves through a food web.
An organism that makes its own food using energy from the sun
Producer
animals that hunt other animals for food
Predator
where animals live with both living and non living items there.
What is a Food Web?
Several food chains connected together.
Trophic Levels
The position that an organism has in a food chain.
An organism that gets energy by eating other organisms
Consumer
Animals that are hunted.
Prey
what is migration?
animals moving to other areas for food for long periods of time
Community
A group of living things that interact in an ecosystem
Primary Consumer is also called....
The first level in a food chain . The consumer who eats the producer
herbivore
An organism that breaks down dead organisms
Decomposers
A particular way in which things affect one another.
Interaction
what is symbiosis?
two organism's that benefit each other.
Population
A group of one or more species living in a certain habitat.
Tertiary Consumer is also called....
The third level in a food chain. A consumer who eats the secondary consumer.
carnivore
Biotic
The living parts of an ecosystem.
The study of the relationship between plants, animals, and their environmentz.
Ecology
Niche
The part that a plant or animal plays in an ecosystem.
Model
Something that represents a real object, event, or process.
Secondary Consumer is also called.....
The second level in a food chain. A consumer who eats the primary consumer.
herbivore or carnivore
Abiotic
The non-living parts of an ecosystem.
The place in which a plant or animal lives.
Habitat
Organism
A individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form.