Ecology 1
An organism that eats meat
What is a Carnivore
An organism that uses sunlight to create its food
What is a producer
any animal that feeds mainly on plants; plant-eater
What is a herbivore?
All living organisms on the earth make up this area...
What is the Biosphere?
any living thing that feeds on both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
Vulture is eating a dead animal it is a
What is a scavenger
A group of the same species living in the same place is a...
What is a population?
An organism that feeds on dead and decaying organisms
What are scavengers?
Plants use this process to turn light into chemical energy
What is photosynthesis?
What is an organism that only eats plants
what is a herbivore?
In a food web the mushroom and bacteria are....
What are decomposers?
Air, water, and the Sun are all ......
What is are abiotic factors?
Animals ____________ for food, water, territory, and mates.
What is an competition?
Any living thing that feeds on the waste of dead bodies of other living things.
What is a decomposer?
The study of interactions between organisms and their environment.
What is ecology?
Anything that restricts a population's size and slows or stops it from growing
What is limiting factor?
Food chains that is interconnected/overlaps in a particular ecosystem
What is a food web?
At the bottom of the food pyramid, what are those organisms called
What are producers
A relationship when both benefit each other.
What is mutually beneficial?
The living and nonliving things and the ways they interact in an environment (ex: redwood forest, swamp, Mojave Desert)
What is an ecosystem?
On the pyramid what is the organism that eats the producer called
What are primary consumers?
All living and nonliving things in an area make this up.
What are ecosystems?
An area that is suitable for a particular organism to live in is called....
What is a habitat?
The living parts of an ecosystem are called...
What is biotic?
An animal that eats plants or other animals and does not make its own food.
What is a consumer?
Multiple populations living in one place ?
What is Community?
Can come in the form of fires, landslides, flooding, windstorms, and insect and pest outbreaks.
What are Ecosystem Disruptions?
A predator at the top of a food chain, without natural predators of its own.
What is Apex Predator?
An organisms that helps hold an ecosystem together. Ex: Beaver
What is a Keystone Species?
The number of living things that a region can support without environmental collapse.
What is Carrying Capacity?
These disrupt the natural flow of an ecosystem
What is an Ecosystem Disruption
The variety of all living things and their interactions
What is Biodiversity?
Powerful indirect interactions that can control entire ecosystems. Ex: Removing wolves in Yellowstone
What is a Trophic Cascade?