Roles of Organisms
An organism that makes its own food.
What is a producer.
All living things in an environment are called.
What is are biotic factors.
This is made up of living and non-living things.
What is an ecosystem.
The path that models how energy and nutrient flow in an ecosystem.
What is a food chain.
An organism that eats plants or other animals.
What is a consumer.
Non-living things in the environment are called.
What are abiotic factors.
The place in an ecosystem where an organism lives.
What is a habitat.
A model that shows how food chains in an ecosystem overlap or link together.
What is a food web.
An organism that breaks down dead plants and animals.
What is a decomposer.
Fungi and bacteria are all examples of these kind of factors.
What is biotic.
A special role that an organism plays in the ecosystem.
What is a niche.
The arrow in a food web always points in the direction that.
What is energy flows.
An animal that eats only plants.
What is a herbivore.
Air, water and soil are all examples of these types of factors.
What is abiotic.
The relationship between all species in an ecosystem.
What is a food web.
A diagram that shows the amount of energy available at each level of an ecosystem.
What is an energy pyramid.
An animals that eats both plants and other animal.
What is an omnivore.
A plants need for carbon dioxide that animals exhale is an example of this.
What is interdependence.
The start of every food chain begins with this abiotic factor.
What is the sun.
A cougar or crocodile is this type of consumer.
What is Tertiary.