Ecosystem Terms
A term to describe an aspect of an ecosystem that is living.
What is biotic?
An animal that only eats plants.
What is a Herbivore.
A way a ecosystem can become unbalanced
what is overpopulation, overconsumption, or dispossession?
The place in which an animal lives
What is a Habitat.
This meat eating animal is typically at the top of a food chain.
The first phase of a habitat where it is just rocks, cooled lava or retreating glaciers where no previous life exists, and organisms like mosses and lichen are begining to arrive.
What is Primary Succession?
One type of ecostem
What is Wetland, Forrest, Dessert, Grassland, Mountain, Freshwater or saltwater?
Herbivores, Omnivores, and Carnivores are examples of this part of an ecosystem.
Consumers
The recovery of an Ecosytem following a disturbance.
What is secondary succession.
A term to describe an aspect of an ecosystem that is not living.
What is Abiotic?
A worm is an example of what part of the ecosytem.
What is a Decomposer?
An animal with no known creatures above it in the food-chain.
What is an Apex-Predator
A network of interactions among living things in an environment.
Plants and fungi are examples of this part of an ecosystem.
What are Producers?
A name for any individual living system like, eg. a plant, an animal, a bacterium or a fungus.
Organism