Vocabulary
Non-living organisms in an ecosystem.
What is Abiotic?
A place where an organism lives.
What is a habitat?
Is a representation of the transfer of energy between organisms.
What are arrows?
A prolonged relationship between two organisms in which one organism benefits.
What is symbiosis?
What are types of ecosystems?
A branch of biology that studies organisms interactions with their environment and other living things.
What is ecology?
An organism's 'way of life,' JOB,or function it performs.
What is a niche?
Organism in the food web that makes their own food.
What is a producer?
When one organism is harmed for the benefit of another.
What is parasitism?
What is an apex predator?
What is Biotic?
All of the living and nonliving things with which an organism interacts.
What is an ecosystem?
An organism that must eat other organisms for energy and nutrients.
What is a consumer?
When both organisms benefit from their relationship?
What is mutualism?
What is a keystone species?
ALL LIVING things in an ecosystem.
What is a community?
An organism that can produce its own food using light, water, + carbon dioxide.
The amount of energy passed from one trophic level to then next.
What is 10%?
When one organism benefits from the relationship and the other is unaffected.
What is commensualism?
An organism that receives energy from a secondary consumer.
What is a tertiary consumer?
A group of organisms of the SAME SPECIES living in the same area.
What is population?
An organism that eats other plants and animals for energy and nutrients.
What is a heterotroph?
An important organism that helps to break down dead matter.
What is a decomposer?
A clownfish is protected by a sea anemome which receives food scraps from the clownfish.
What is mutualism?
The amount of energy used by an organism for basic life processes.
What is 90%?