Roles Of Organisms
What is a consumer?
An organism that does not produce its own energy. It feeds on other organisms or matter.
This term refers to all living things in an ecosystem
Biotic Factor
What is a Herbivore?
Give an Example
An animal that only eats plants
What type of organism creates its own energy?
A Producer ( eg a plant, algae)
Non-living components of an ecosystem, like air, water, and soil, are called this.
Abiotic Factor
What is a carnivore?
Give an example
An animal that only eats other animals.
What is a Decomposer?
Organisms that break down dead plant and animal matter and waste product.
This is the term for all the living and non-living things interacting in a particular environment
Ecosystem
What is an omnivore?
Give an example
Name the process by which producers, like plants, convert sunlight into energy.
Photosynthesis
What is a population within an ecosystem?
A group of individuals of the same species living in a particular geographic area at the same time.
What is the first level within a food chain?
Producers
Microscopic organisms responsible for decomposing waste and organic material.
Bacteria
What do you call the position an organism occupies within a food chain?
Trophic Level
This word describes the linear process of energy transfer from one organism to another in an ecosystem
Food Chain