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?
Bears, humans, raccoons, many birds are this type of organism, based specifically on which foods they eat
What is an omnivore?
an organism that hunts, kills, and eats other organisms
What is a predator
A plant's source of energy
What is sun?
An animal that feeds on dead and decaying animals
What are scavengers?
The relationship between 2 organisms where 1 gets something good and 1 is not affected
What is commensalism?
In a food web the mushroom and bacteria are....
What are decomposers?
Which shows a 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
Animals that only eat plants
What are herbivores?
Two types of an ecosystem are
terrestrial and aquatic
Relationship between 2 organisms where both get something good.
What is mutualism?
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 to energy when you move through the different trophic levels
The energy level goes down
The biotic and abiotic factors and the ways they interact in an environment
What is an ecosystem?
On the pyramid what is the organism that eats the producer called
What are primary consumers?
Relationship between 2 organisms where one gets something bad and one gets something good from it
What is parasitism?
Living organisms in an ecosystem are called...
What are organisms?
An animal that eats plants or other animals and does not make its own food.
What is a consumer?
An area that is suitable for a particular organism to live in is called....
What is a habitat?
Organisms that eat both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
Organisms that are supposed to live in a certain ecosystem
What is a native species?
The relationship between a dog and a flea?
What is parasitism?
Animals that get its energy from autotrophs
What is a heterotroph?
This terrestrial biome contains the most diversity of plants and animals
What is the Tropical Rainforest?
Organisms that come from somewhere else, but start to take over the natural ecosystem
What are invasive species?