Lesson 1
All the living and nonliving things in an area and their interactions.
What is an ecosystem?
An animal that hunts and eats another animal.
What is a predator?
A relationship where one species benefits and the other is harmed.
What is parasatism?
Any animal that is hunted by others for food.
What is prey?
Eats plants. Always a primary consumer.
What is a herbivore?
A place that provides all the things an organism needs to live.
What is a habitat?
first level consumer that eats producers.
What is a primary consumer?
A relationship where both species benefit.
What is mutualism?
Make their own food for energy.
What is a producer?
Eats meat.
What is a carnivore?
A group of organisms of one species that live in an area at the same time.
What is a population?
Eats plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
A relationship where one species benefits and the other is unaffected
What is commensalism?
A species of animal or plant that no longer has any living individuals on Earth.
What is an extinct species?
Normally the apex predator of an ecosystem this 3rd level consumer that eats secondary consumer.
What is a tertiary consumer?
Different populations in an area.
What is a community?
A series of steps by which energy moves from one type of living thing to another.
What is a food chain?
A long-term relationship between two different organisms.
What is symbiosis?
A species of animal or plant that is seriously at risk of extinction.
What is an endangered species?
Organisms that get their energy by breaking down wastes and dead organisms.
What is a decomposer?
a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals.
What is a species?
A diagram that combines many food chains into one picture.
What is a food web?
Organisms that cannot make their own food.
What is a consumer?
A nonnative species is a plant or animal that does not grow naturally in an ecosystem.
What is an invasive species?
When our ecosystem is out of whack it returns to this after many years, which is a fancy way for saying balanced.
What is equilibrium?