Ecosystem Organization
The two types of factors that make up an ecosystem?
What is biotic and abiotic
A win - win relationship.
What is mutualism?
A diagram that shows many ways matter and energy transfer in an ecosystem.
What is a Food Web?
The source of all of the energy in most food webs.
What is the Sun?
The material that limits the population of a type of organism.
What is a limiting factor?
A single organism.
What is an individual?
A race - to - win relationship.
What is competition?
A simple diagram showing one possible pathway of energy and matter.
What is a Food Chain?
This process, done by producers, traps light energy in food molecules such as glucose.
What is Photosynthesis?
The amount of organisms of a species that can live in an area with stable resources.
What is carrying capacity?
a community of organisms together with the abiotic factors
What is an ecosystem?
A win - lose relationship where one thing gets eaten.
What is predation?
Makes the food that animals need to live.
What is a producer?
These organisms break down biotic to release matter and get energy.
What is a decomposer?
When the trees in an area are cut down and removed.
What is deforestation?
All of the living things in an area.
What is a community?
A win - lose relationship where one thing gets harmed but not usually killed.
What is parasitism?
An animal that eats producers are called?
What is a herbivore consumer or primary consumer?
This is recycled in a food web.
What is matter / atoms / molecules?
Removing habitat and food source have caused the orangutans population to __________ .
What is decrease?
All of the robins that live in the Northwood Meadows area.
What is a population?
A win - meh relationship
What is commensalism?
An animal that eats a carnivore.
What is a tertiary or level three consumer
This is used up by the cells of organisms and needs to be constantly replaced.
What is energy?
An invasive species limiting factor that has caused harm to the everglades ecosystem in Florida.
What is the Burmese Pythons?