Describing Ecosystems
The NON living parts of an ecosystem. (ex. temperature, water, sunlight)
What are Abiotic Factors?
A relationship between two organisms in which one species benefits and the other is harmed.
What is Parasitism?
All of the energy in an ecosystem begins with this.
What is the Sun?
Organisms that use an outside source, such as the sun, and produce their own food.
What are Producers?
The relationship shared by an acacia tree (provides ants with nectar/shelter) and the acacia ant (protects the tree).
What is mutualism?
All of the organisms of the SAME species that live in the same place at the same time.
What is a Population?
A relationship between two organisms in which both benefit.
What is Mutualism?
The organisms that do not quite fit into the food web because they break down everything.
Consumers that only eat producers.
What are Herbivores?
The organism that provides a niche for fish, frogs, and amphibians in a river by building its home.
What is a Beaver?
The PLACE in an ecosystem that provides an organism with everything it needs to survive and reproduce.
What is a Habitat?
An interaction between two or more organisms that need the same resources at the same time
What is Competition?
The arrows in a food chain or food web represent this.
What is the direction of energy flow?
Consumers that eat other consumers.
What are Carnivores?
What is a Population Increase?
All of the populations that live together in an ecosystem at the same time.
What is a Community?
The act of one organism feeding on another organism.
What is Predation?
A wolf gets energy from a moose, so the wolf and the moose in a food web share this type of relationship.
What is Predator-Prey?
Consumers that eat producers and consumers.
What are Omnivores?
What is live/survive?
The specific way an organism interacts with the ecosystem to fulfill its needs. (ex. Animals eating different parts of a tree)
What is a Niche?
A relationship between two organisms in which one species benefits and the other is unaffected.
What is Commensalism?
The amount of energy that is passed from a primary consumer to a secondary consumer. (Shown in an energy pyramid)
What is 10%?
Consume the bodies of dead organisms and wastes produced by living organisms. (Includes Decomposers)
What are Detritivores?
The largest number of individuals of one species that an ecosystem can support over time.
What is Carrying Capacity?