Category 1
Organisms that make their own food using sunlight
Producers
Organisms that consume both plants and animals
Omnivore
Producers get their energy from this?
The Sun
Living or once living
Biotic
Organisms that break down dead organic matter into simpler substances
Decomposers
Non-living and never was living
Abiotic
Organisms that feed on other organisms
Carnivores
When food chains overlap they create this
Food Web
The arrows in a food web show this between organisms.
Energy Flow
Organisms that feed exclusively on plants
Herbivore
Organisms that obtain energy by consuming other organisms
Consumers
A model of how energy flows from one organism to the next.
Food Chain
A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment
Ecosystem
An animal that is hunted by another for food.
Prey
They have no natural predators.
Apex Predator
An animal that naturally preys on others
Predator
The process when plants take energy from the sun and combine it with water and oxygen to make sugar to use as energy.
Photosynthesis
A natural home or environment
Habitat
They eat a second order consumer.
Tertiary Consumer
The organisms role in an ecosystem.
Niche
Community
Cannot make its own food
Heterotroph
All the organisms of one species make this up.
Population
Name the four examples of decomposers
Worms, Bacteria, Fungi, Mushrooms
Makes its own food.