Ecosystems
A nonliving part of an ecosystem.
What is abiotic factor?
The place where a plant or animal naturally lives and grows.
What is habitat?
Any of the plants and algae that produce oxygen and food that animals need.
What is producer?
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?
By the food they eat.
What is the BEST way to classify consumers?
An animal that eats another animal.
What is carnivore?
A group of similar organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring.
What is species?
A living part of an ecosystem.
What is biotic factor?
The overlapping food chains with many food energy paths in an ecosystem.
What is Food Web?
The part people play in a food chain.
What is a consumer?
An animal that eats both plants and animals.
What is omnivore?
Sun - Producer - Herbivore - Carnivore
What is the order of energy in a food chain?
All the members of one species in an area.
What is population?
Energy role that breaks down wastes and dead organisms.
What is decomposer?
Any animal that eats plants or eats other plant-eating animals.
What is consumer?
An animal that hunts other animals for food.
What is predator?
A relationship between two kinds of organisms that benefits both.
What is Symbiosis?
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?
Any of the fungi or bacteria that break down dead plants and animals into useful things like minerals and rich soil.
What is decomposer?
A living thing that is hunted for food.
What is prey?
A primary source of energy in all ecosystems.
What is SUN?