VOCABUARY
Place where an organism lives and provides the things the organism needs
What is a HABITAT?
A group of organisms that are physically similar and can reproduce with each other to produce fertile offspring
What is a SPECIES?
A group of organisms that are physically similar and can reproduce with each other to produce fertile offspring
What is a SPECIES?
The organism that does the killing of another organism for food energy
What is a PREDATOR?
Organisms that create and store their own food energy
What are PRODUCERS?
All the living and nonliving things that interact in a particular area
What is an ECOSYSTEM?
Organisms use water, along with sunlight and carbon dioxide to make their own food in this process
The struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
What is COMPETITION?
A consumer that eats both producers and other consumers
What are OMNIVORES?
A diagram that consists of many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem
What is a FOOD WEB?
An INDIVIDUAL thing or form of life, such as a plant, animal, or fungus
What is an ORGANISM?
The nonliving parts of an ecosystem
What are ABIOTIC FACTORS?
Organisms that break down wastes and dead organisms and return the raw materials to the environment
What are DECOMPOSERS?
A consumer that eats only other consumers
What are CARNIVORES?
A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web
What is an ENERGY PYRAMID?
All the members of one species in a particular area
What is a POPULATION?
The living parts of an ecosystem
What are BIOTIC FACTORS?
The organisms that is killed and eaten by another organism for food energy
What is a PREY?
A group of living organisms that consume only producers
What are HERBIVORES?
A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
What is a FOOD CHAIN?
All the different populations that live together in an area
What is a COMMUNITY?
An organism's particular role or how it makes its living in an ecosystem
What is a NICHE?
An organism that obtains energy by feeding on another organism
What is a CONSUMER?
A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
What are SCAVENGERS?
A very large ecological area often defined by abiotic factors, including climate, and producers and consumers adapte to their environment
What is a BIOME?