Flower
Bumblebee
Frog
Snake
Eagle
100
Base of food chains & webs
Producers
100
Primary Consumers
100
Secondary Consumers
100
Tertiary Consumers
100
Decomosers
200
Food Chain
200
Organism that uses Photosynthesis or Chemosyntheses to produce its own energy
Autotroph
200
Food Web
200
Cannot produce their own energy, acquiring nourishment from plants and/or animals
Heterotrophs
200
How do decomposers, which break down dead organisms, benefit their ecosystem?
Recycles nutrients
300
Habitat
Water and light source
Predation
Limiting Factors
300
Sources become scarce
Competition increases
Population is affected
Carrying Capacity
300
What is happening to the species of a Native population when an Invasive species is introduced to the environment?
Decreasing
300
If a population has no _________, over-grazing and habitat degradation will occur
Predators
300
What is missing from this model?
Decomposers
400
Predation
400
Plants
Animals
Bacteria
Human Impact
Biotic Factors
400
Competition
400
Sunlight
Water
Shelter
Natural Disasters
Abiotic Factors
400
True / False
An organism can decompose at any point in the trophic system?
True
500
How organisms in an ecosystem interact with each other
Interdependence
500
Mutualism
500
True or False?
The ecosystem is balanced, and changing one thing in the system can cause significant changes to the environment
True
500
Commensalism
500
Parasitism