Vocab 4.1
A community of organisms and their abiotic environment.
What is ecosystems?
This happens to the predator population in an ecosystem when its prey population INCREASES?
What is predator population increases?
The first level of the energy pyramid.
What is a producer?
An organism that gets energy from dead/decaying matter.
What is decomposer?
An organism that can make its own food.
What is a producer?
An environmental factor that is associated with or results from the activities of living organisms.
What is biotic factors?
A symbiotic relationship where two organisms both benefit.
What is mutualism?
Second level of the the trophic level.
What is the primary consumer?
Anything that can carry out life processes independently.
What is organism?
An organisms that has to get its food from another organism.
What is a consumer?
An environmental factor that is not associated with the activities of living organisms.
What is abiotic factors?
A relationship between the two living species in which one organism is benefited at the expense of the other.
What is parasitism?
This much energy is available from one level of a trophic pyramid to the next?
What is 10%
The maximum number of individuals that an ecosystem can support is the.
What is carrying capacity?
One of the steps of a food chain/web.
What is the trophic level?
A group of organisms that are closely related and can mate to produce fertile offspring.
What is species?
An association between two organisms in which one benefits and the other derives neither benefit nor harm.
What is commensalism?
The arrows of a food chain point in the direction of
What is energy flow?
The place where an organism usually lives.
What is a habitat?
Multiple food chains that are interconnected.
What is a food web?
A group of organisms of the same species that live in a specific geographical area and interbreed.
What is a population?
The process by which substances not readily broken down or excreted can build up and be stored in living tissue (usually in fatty tissue.)
What is bioaccumulation?
High biodiversity areas are represented by _________.
What is food webs?
Is the process by which substances become more concentrated in the bodies of consumers as one moves up the food chain (trophic levels).
What is Biomagnification?
One portion of a food web that shows energy flowing from producers to consumers.
What is a food chain?