Ecosystems 1
a non-living factor
What is abiotic?
A living factor
What is biotic?
A place where an organism lives; its "address"
What is a habitat?
All energy in food webs comes from this
What is the sun?
An organism's functional role within its ecosystem; its "job"
What is a niche?
An animal that eats plants or other animals and does not make its own food.
What is a consumer?
An organism that uses sunlight to create its food
What is a producer
An animal that eats meat & plants
What is an omnivore?
3 examples of biotic factors
Plants, animals, fungi, bacteria
The arrows in a food chain and food web represent this
What is the flow of energy?
A group of populations of organisms interacting with each other in a common habitat
What is a community?
Temperature, water, soil, light, and rocks
the flow of energy from a producer to one or more consumers. (ie: linked together by their feeding relationships)
What is a food chain?
In a food web, this is the role of fungi and bacteria
What are decomposers?
Competing over resources between different species
What is competition?
An adaptation that helps an animal blend in with its surroundings
What is camouflage?
living and nonliving things are parts that make this.
What are ecosystems?
An animal that just eats plants
What is a herbivore?
A model that shows energy loss between trophic levels in a food chain
What is an ecological (or productivity) pyramid?
A relationship when both benefit each other.
What is mutualism?
A mosquito sucking blood from a person is this type of relationship
What is parasitic (or parasitism)?
when neither organism benefits or is harmed this is called
commensalism
A bacteria or amoeba is an example of this type of cell
What is unicellular?
This is when energy or matter flows from one storage to another without changing state
What is a transfer?
A snowshoe hare lives in the Tundra and has white fur. This fur helps it blend in with the snow and hide from predators. This is an example of a(n):
A. symbiosis
B. herbivore
C. ecosystem
D. adaptation
D
A group of the same species living in the same place at the same time
What is a population?
What is the top of the food chain called?
A tertiary consumer
The position an organism occupies in a food chain or food web
What is trophic level?
What is it called when the sun energy is changed into sugars in a plant?
What is photosynthesis?