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
A relationship between two organisms in which both organisms benefit.
What is mutualism?
The environment with the most biodiversity
What is the rainforest?
What are the 3 types of adaptations?
What are physical (structural), behavioral and physiological?
In a food web the mushroom and bacteria are....
What are decomposers?
Name the type pf adaptation:
1. migration, hibernation: ______________________
2. bird beak shape: ______________________
3. poison release, temperature regulation: ________________________________
1. behavioral
2. physical
3. physiological
The harmed species in a parasitic relationship is called this.
What is the host?
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
Many of the same species is a...
What is a population?
Barnacles create home sites by attaching themselves to whales. This relationship neither harms nor benefits the whales.
What is commensalism?
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?
An animal that eats plants or other animals and does not make its own food.
What is a consumer?
All the populations living in one place ?
What is Community?
If a bee lands on a flower and collects its nectar, is this an example of parasitism?
Why or why not?
What is No? The bee spreads the nectar & pollen which helps the flower reproduce. The relationship is mutualistic.
the variety of species in an ecosystem
Biodiversity
The role that an organism plays in the ecosystem is called...
What is a niche?
What are the characteristics of living things (use the acronym below for help)
MRS C GREN
what is
Movement
Respiration (production of energy)
Sensitivity (reacts to the environment)
Control (homeostasis, balance)
Growth
Reproduction
Excretion (produce waste, urine, feces, CO2)
Nutrition
restriction of the number of organisms that can live in an area.
What is a limiting factors?
the study of the relationships and interactions of living things with their environment
What is Ecology?
Air, water, and the Sun are all ......
What is are abiotic factors?
Human and intestinal worm, dogs and ticks, what type of relationship is this?
What is parasitism?