Ecosystems 1
A nonliving part of an ecosystem.
What is abiotic factor?
The place where a plant or animal naturally lives and grows.
What is habitat?
An animal that eats plants, algae, and other producers.
What is herbivore?
A meat eating animal that feeds on the remains of dead animals.
What is scavenger?
All the living and non-living things in an environment, including their interactions with each other.
What is Ecosystems?
The path of the energy in food from one organism to another.
What is food chain?
An animal that eats another animal.
What is carnivore?
A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web?
What is energy pyramid?
A living part of an ecosystem.
What is biotic factor?
The overlapping food chains in an ecosystem?
What is Food Web?
An animal that eats both plants and animals.
What is omnivore?
A relationship between two kinds of organisms that last over time.
What is symbiosis?
All the members of one species in an area.
What is population?
The dependence of every organism and its connections with other living and nonliving parst of its environment.
What is interdependence?
An animal that hunts other animals for food.
What is predator?
Fungi or bacteria break down dead plants and animals into useful things like minerals and rich soil. What are fungi and bacteria known as?
What is a decomposer?
All the living things in an ecosystem.
What is community?
A characteristic that enables in living thing to survive in its environment.
What is Adaptations?
A living thing that is hunted for food.
What is prey?
Any of the plants and algae that produce oxygen and food that animals need.
What is a producer?