Ecosystems 1
An organism that eats meat
What is a Carnivore
An organism that uses sunlight to create its food
What is a producer
any animal that feeds mainly on plants; plant-eater
What is a herbivore?
any living thing that feeds on both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
an organism that hunts, kills, and eats other organisms
What is a predator
Plants source of energy
What is sun
Many of the same species is a...
What is a population?
A robin and bluejay eat the same insect. What type of interaction is this? (competition, mutualism, parasitism)
what is competition
Plants use this process to turn light into chemical energy
What is photosynthesis?
In a food web the mushroom and bacteria are....
What are decomposers?
one organism of one species
What is an individual?
Air, water, and the Sun are all ......
What is are abiotic factors?
Animals ____________ for food, water, territory, and mates.
What is an competition?
Any living thing that feeds on the waste of dead bodies of other living things.
What is a decomposer?
bacteria, fungi, worms, ants, beetles, sow bugs
What are some examples of decomposers?
Food chains that is interconnected/overlaps in a particular ecosystem
What is a food web?
At the bottom of the food pyramid, what are those organisms called
What are producers
What happens when you go down the food pyramid
The energy level goes down
restriction of the number of organisms that can live in an area.
What is a limiting factors?
The living and nonliving things and the ways they interact in an environment (ex: redwood forest, swamp, Mojave Desert)
What is an ecosystem?
On the pyramid what is the organism that eats the producer called
What are primary consumers?
Living organisms in an ecosystem are called...
What is biotic?
the competition between individuals of different species
What is interspecific competition?
An area that is suitable for a particular organism to live in is called....
What is a habitat?
All the populations living in one place ?
What is Community?
a competition between individuals from the same species
what is intraspecific competition?
The role that an organism plays in the ecosystem is called...
What is a niche?
What are the 3 symbiotic relationships?
what is commensalism, mutualism, and parasitism?
The 3 different types of adaptations
What is structural, behavioral, and physiological?
draw an example of a food chain on the whiteboard
plants --> rabbit --> fox
A way an animal can blend into their surroundings
What is a camouflage?
Which sequence illustrates a generalized food chain in a natural community?
1. producer herbivore carnivore
2. autotroph herbivore autotroph
3. heterotroph herbivore carnivore
4. Consumer autotroph carnivore
1. producer herbivore carnivore