What is it?
We often draw these in a pyramid to represent the position of organisms in a food chain
Trophic level
The total number of an organism that an ecosystem can support is called this.
Carrying capacity
Only this type of organism can make its on food.
Plants or producers
A linear sequence showing how matter and energy travels from on organism to the next.
Food chain
I think life is more interesting when you have to work for your supper. My type of hunting is called this.
Predation
Living factors are called this.
Biotic
Variety is the spice of life and I represent all of the variety of living organisms on Earth.
Biodiversity
I am not a big fan of eating plants, so I am called this, which begins with a Spanish root.
Carnivore
***The arrows in a food chain or a food web represent the flow of this throughout the ecosystem.
Energy
Sometimes there just isn't enough for everyone, so we might have to fight for that last leg of lamb. It's just a little friendly, or not so friendly _______.
Competition
When it comes to the energy pyramid, I am above the secondary consumers. What am I called?
Top consumer
I am unique even though there are many types of me, each one with a unique environment and collection of species.
Biome
I'll eat anything you put in front of me so I am called this.
Omnivore
If it were not for me, there would be a lot of smelly animals rotting around.
Decomposer
When the cell takes that glucose you ate and turns it into energy, it is called this.
Cellular respiration
Non-living, never lived and never will objects are this type of factor.
Abiotic
It you could gather all of the living organisms in an area and measure it, you would be calculating this.
Biomass
I prefer someone else to cook and clean and prepare my food. I don't even mind if its been rotting a while. I am a ____________.
Decomposer
If we connect the many food chains present in an ecosystem, we will create this.
A food web.
I like herbs, but really all plants. This puts me where on the Energy pyramid.
With the primary consumers/above the producers
I live in the trophic level just above the primary consumers. What am I?
Secondary consumer/carnivore
Living organisms and their non-living environment make up this.
Ecosystem
All us organisms that eat food for energy, even you, are called this.
Heterotrophs
***In a food chain or web, the arrow always points to this.
The eater.
It all begins with me. I am the process that uses the suns energy to bind carbon dioxide and water to create glucose which feeds everything!
Photosynthesis