Parts of an Ecosystem
Nutritional Relationships
Symbiosis
Energy Flow
100
Nonliving things in an ecosystem.
What are abiotic factors?
100
Green plants
What are producers?
100
One organism benefits and the other is killed and eaten.
What is predation?
100
An organism that gets energy by eating plants.
What is a primary consumer?
200
The living things in an ecosystem.
What are biotic factors?
200
Living things that eat, or consume, other living things.
What are consumers?
200
Both organisms benefit
What is Mutualism?
200
An organism that gets energy by eating other animals.
What is a secondary consumer?
300
Organisms of the same kind.
What is species?
300
Organisms that break down dead plants and animals to get food.
What are decomposers?
300
One organism benefits and one organism is unaffected.
What is Commensalism?
300
"Nature's recyclers"
What are decomposers?
400
All the members of one species living in one place.
What is population?
400
Consumers that eat only plants.
What are herbivores?
400
One organism benefits and the other is harmed.
What is Parasitism?
400
Connected food chains showing all organisms in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
500
All the different populations living together in one place.
What is community?
500
Consumers that eat only animals.
What are carnivores?
500
A relationship between two different species that live in close association with each other.
What is a symbiotic relationship?
500
A series of organisms that depend on one another for food.
What is a food chain?
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