Environment
Food Web
Habitat
Ecosystem
Potpourri
100
The non-living parts.
What are Abiotic factors?
100
Process of making food using light energy.
What is Photosynthesis?
100
This happens when too many species occupy the same area.
What is Competition?
100
All the members of a species living in an area.
What is Population?
100
The study of organisms & their interaction with the environment.
What is Ecology?
200
The living parts
What are Biotic factors?
200
Process of making energy using chemical energy.
What is Chemosynthesis?
200
Specific environment in which a species lives.
What is Habitat?
200
All the populations living in an area.
What is Community?
200
The different feeding levels in an ecosystem.
What are Trophic levels?
300
All the living and non-living parts put together.
What is an Ecosystem?
300
Eats only plants.
What is an Herbivore (1st level consumer)?
300
An organism's role in the environment.
What is Niche?
300
A group of organisms that can interbred and produce viable & fertile offspring.
What is a Species?
300
Condors and vultures are considered this in an ecosystem.
What are Scavengers?
400
The number of parts to the environment.
What is 2?
400
Eats both plants & animals.
What is an Omnivore (2nd or 3rd level consumer)?
400
The number of different species in a habitat.
What is Biodiversity?
400
The base of all food webs in an ecosystem.
What are Producers?
400
A snake eats a frog that has eaten an insect that fed on a plant is this type of consumer.
What is a 3rd level (tertiary) consumer?
500
Shows the amount of energy available in an ecosystem.
What is a Biomass (ecological) pyramid?
500
Breaksdown dead or decaying matter.
What is Decomposer?
500
A cause of species extinction.
What is Habitat destruction?
500
Energy not transferred to the next trophic level is lost as this.
What is Heat?
500
An organism that actively hunts other organisms for food.
What is a Predator?
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